ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,706, issued on June 24, was assigned to TidalX AI Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Drone-based water measurement system" was invented by Thomas Robert Swanson (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Harrison Pham (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining drone-based water measurements. One of the methods includes receiving, by a drone management system that controls a drone that is configured to collect water samples, data from a simulator that generates simulation data associated with a body of water; receiving, by the drone manage...