US Patent Issued to NEURAL ENTERPRISES on June 17 for "Systems and methods for 3D model based drone flight planning and control" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,756, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEURAL ENTERPRISES INC. (Kirkland, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for 3D model based drone flight planning and control" was invented by Matthew Laurence Arksey (Seattle), Deon Blaauw (Lisse, Netherlands), Lucas Thomas Hahn (Brooklyn, N.Y.), John Gordon McQueen (Seattle), Satoshi Nakajima (Medina, Wash.), Guy David Byron Shefner (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) and Richard Chia Tsing Tong (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a plurality of drones to survey a location, the method comprising, at a computing system: automatically generating preliminary flight plans for a plurality o...