US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on April 22 for "Helicopter obstacle avoidance with slung load" (Connecticut, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,193, issued on April 22, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Helicopter obstacle avoidance with slung load" was invented by Navid Dadkhah Tehrani (Providence, R.I.), Sean S. Carlson (New Milford, Conn.) and Cauvin Polycarpe (Middletown, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Load volume predication for slung loads of aerial vehicles are disclosed. A system can identify parameters of a load. The system can determine a volume occupied by a superposition of locations of the cone. The system can receive from sensors or models, characteristics of an environment associated with the aerial vehicle or the load. The system ca...