ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,972, issued on July 29, was assigned to Spleenlab GmbH (Germany).

"Method for controlling a flight movement of an aerial vehicle for landing or for dropping a cargo, and aerial vehicle" was invented by Chris Hagen (Bad Lobenstein, Germany), Florian Olsner (Jena, Germany) and Stefan Milz (Saalburg-Ebersdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The preferred embodiments relate to a method for controlling a flight movement of an aerial vehicle for landing the aerial vehicle, including: recording of first image data by means of a first camera device, which is provided on an aerial vehicle, and is configured to record an area of ground...