US Patent Issued to Reliable Robotics on Dec. 16 for "Landing site localization for dynamic control of an aircraft toward a landing site" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,718, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Reliable Robotics Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Landing site localization for dynamic control of an aircraft toward a landing site" was invented by Robert W. Rose (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew T. Nehrenz (Mountain View, Calif.), John P. Couluris (Mountain View, Calif.) and Juerg Frefel (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "While an aircraft is in flight toward the desired landing site, the aircraft generates a navigation solution to land the aircraft at the landing site. The navigation solution is transmitted to an operator that is at a location remote from the aircraft. Th...