ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,433, issued on March 4, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
"Systems and methods for indoor positioning of unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Derek Wade Ohlarik (Flemington, N.J.) and Aamir Husain (Jersey City, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may receive spatial data corresponding to an interior of a building and objects located in the interior of the building. The device may generate a digital map of the interior of the building based on the spatial data. The device may generate a geographic coordinate map of the interior of the building. The device ma...