US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on Nov. 4 for "Drone having flight-direction-dependent sensor orientation for autonomous drone applications, and method for avoiding collisions" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,242, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).

"Drone having flight-direction-dependent sensor orientation for autonomous drone applications, and method for avoiding collisions" was invented by Stefan Obermayr (Duisburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drone includes a body and motors or drives on the body which allow the drone to fly. The drone has two sensors, for steering and for avoiding collisions, and the sensors are each mounted on a servo. The drone also has a camera. A method for avoiding collisions of the drone includes the combination of two detectable 180deg hemispher...