US Patent Issued to Sunflower Labs on April 1 for "Optimizing dynamic observation with an autonomous camera vehicle based on uncertain sensor data" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,574, issued on April 1, was assigned to Sunflower Labs Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Optimizing dynamic observation with an autonomous camera vehicle based on uncertain sensor data" was invented by Alexander S. Pachikov (San Carlos, Calif.), Christian Eheim (Fallanden, Switzerland) and Yannik S. Nager (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Directing a camera vehicle includes detecting dynamic objects within a property perimeter that is monitored by the camera vehicle, estimating positions and motion vectors of the objects, and directing the camera vehicle to observe the objects in response to there being uncertainty in est...