US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on Sept. 9 for "Collision prevention flight control mode" (Connecticut, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,499, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Collision prevention flight control mode" was invented by Anthony J. Smith (Trumbull, Conn.), Navid Tehrani Dadkhah (Providence, R.I.) and Michael Gregory Todd (Southington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling an aerial vehicle to avoid obstacles are disclosed. A system can detect, based on a world model generated from sensor data captured by one or more sensors positioned on the aerial vehicle during flight, an obstacle for the aerial vehicle, and trigger an augmented manual control mode responsive to a speed of the ...