US Patent Issued to Joby Aero on May 27 for "Vision-based landing system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,268, issued on May 27, was assigned to Joby Aero Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Vision-based landing system" was invented by Maxime Marie Christophe Gariel (San Francisco), Ian Baldwin (Pleasanton, Calif.), Brian Shimanuki (San Francisco), Rob Timpe (San Francisco) and Edward Lim (Pacifica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes one or more cameras configured to attach to an aircraft and capture a plurality of images. The plurality of images includes a first image including a runway and a subsequently captured second image including the runway. The system includes an aircraft computing system configured to identify comm...