ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,269, issued on March 4, was assigned to Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Terminal" was invented by Susumu Toyoshima (Tokyo), Yoshinobu Nagao (Tokyo) and Yasuyuki Tokuda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal that controls an unmanned flying device equipped with an imaging function, the terminal comprising: a function of acquiring information for setting a first operation of the unmanned flying device so that an object is imaged; a function of acquiring an image acquired as a result of the unmanned flying device performing the first operation from the unmanned flying device; a function of using the image to receive a...