US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on July 29 for "Automatic landing system for vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and landing control method for vertical take-off and landing aircraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,976, issued on July 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Automatic landing system for vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and landing control method for vertical take-off and landing aircraft" was invented by Satoshi Mori (Tokyo), Toru Kojima (Tokyo) and Katsumi Takagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic landing system for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft includes: a camera mounted on a vertical take-off and landing aircraft; a relative-position acquisition unit configured to perform image processing on an image captured by the camera, the im...