ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,065, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Unmanned aircraft vehicle state awareness" was invented by John R. Wittmaak Jr. (Newark, Texas), Joshua A. Edler (Irving, Texas), Alan H. Steinert (Fort Worth, Texas) and Joshua A. Duckett (Trophy Club, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for increasing the safety of unmanned vehicles. Failure rates of components can be combined and adjusted if necessary given sensor data or statistical or historical data that impacts failure rates. The failure rates of components can be combined to give an overall failure or success...