ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,480, issued on June 10, was assigned to SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and associated systems for managing 3D flight paths" was invented by Yuewen Ma (Guangdong, China), Kaiyong Zhao (Guangdong, China), Shizhen Zheng (Guangdong, China) and Chihui Pan (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and associated systems and apparatus for generating a three-dimensional (3D) flight path for a moveable platform such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are disclosed herein. The method includes receiving a set of 3D information associated with a virtual reality environment and receiving a plurality of virt...