ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,325, issued on July 1, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
"Dynamic aircraft routing" was invented by Ian Andreas Villa (San Francisco), Eric Mueller (San Francisco), Christabelle Bosson (Mountain View, Calif.) and Thomas Prevot (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments are directed to generating an optimized network of flight paths and an operations volume around each of these flight paths. A network system creates a source network of paths, whereby the source network comprises a set of possible paths between two locations. The network system assigns a cost for traversing each edge of each ...