US Patent Issued to Rakuten Group on June 24 for "Information processing device, landing suitability determining method, and non-transitory computer readable memory" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,704, issued on June 24, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, landing suitability determining method, and non-transitory computer readable memory" was invented by Mitsuru Nakazawa (Tokyo) and Jun Takizawa (Chino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information processing device detects a feature existing in the peripheral area of a landing candidate place of the UAV 1, estimates a degree of influence on a landing due to downwardly-blowing wind generated during the landing of the UAV 1, hitting and bouncing off the feature, which is the degree of influence at the landing candidate place, and ...