US Patent Issued to Morgan State University on Dec. 2 for "Unmanned vehicle safety assurance system" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,610, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Morgan State University (Baltimore).

"Unmanned vehicle safety assurance system" was invented by Kevin Kornegay (Middle River, Md.) and Denzel Hamilton (Upper Marlboro, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety assurance system and apparatus for improving the safety of unmanned vehicles where various computer, GPS and proximity data is collected onboard from the unmanned vehicle and transmitted to a ground/home station, where the data is assigned values according to fuzzy logic rules. The values are input to a fuzzy logic safety module and three different fuzzy logic security modules to safety a...