ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,098, issued on April 22, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Barrier data collection device, barrier data collection method, and barrier data collection program" was invented by Yuki Kurauchi (Tokyo), Naoto Abe (Tokyo) and Hitoshi Seshimo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A barrier data collection device includes a unit estimation unit that estimates, based on sensor data with position information including height at a time when a mobile body including a flying mobile body moving in the air moves, the sensor data being collected in advance about each of geographical ranges, with an estimator, about each ...