US Patent Issued to The Texas A&M University System on Feb. 18 for "Mapping objects using unmanned aerial vehicle data in GPS-denied environments" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,026, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Mapping objects using unmanned aerial vehicle data in GPS-denied environments" was invented by Amir H. Behzadan (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying, locating, and mapping targets of interest using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) camera footage in GPS-denied environments. In one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining UAV visual data, passing the UAV visual data through a convolutional neural network (CNN) in order to detect targets of interest based on visual features disposed in the UAV visu...