US Patent Issued to Snap on April 29 for "Autonomous drone navigation based on vision" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,647, issued on April 29, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Autonomous drone navigation based on vision" was invented by David G. Fliszar (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Russell Douglas Patton (Playa Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer readable medium and methods for autonomous drone navigation based on vision are disclosed. Example methods include capturing an image using an image capturing device of the autonomous drone, processing the image to identify an object, and navigating the autonomous drone relative to the object for a period of time. After the period of time a second type of navigat...