US Patent Issued to University of Kansas on Feb. 18 for "Guiding an unmanned aerial vehicle using multi-point guidance" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,154, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kan.).

"Guiding an unmanned aerial vehicle using multi-point guidance" was invented by Shawn Keshmiri (Lawrence, Kan.), Jeffrey Xu (Lawrence, Kan.) and Thomas Brendan Le Pichon (Kansas City, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media implemented in connection with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to navigate a UAV along a desired path. For example, systems disclosed herein identify an anticipatory flight path and identify a plurality of reference points on the flight path relative to a curre...