ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,004, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ULTRAVIEW AI INC. (Austin, Texas).

"UAV-based aviation inspection systems and related methods" was invented by Jacolby Harvey (Austin, Texas), Idan Fiksel (Austin, Texas), Braedon O'Meara (Austin, Texas) and Sami Mian (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for inspecting aircraft via an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system are disclosed. In some implementations a system, comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a computing system configured to establish a coordinate system in a space exterior to the aircraft in a global positioning system (GPS) denied environment. Th...