US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on April 22 for "Semantic abort of unmanned aerial vehicle deliveries" (California, Texas, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,099, issued on April 22, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Semantic abort of unmanned aerial vehicle deliveries" was invented by Ali Shoeb (San Rafael, Calif.), Marcus Hammond (Redwood City, Calif.), Christopher Cobar (Shoreview, Minn.), Kyle Krafka (Los Altos, Calif.), Kyle Julian (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kevin Jenkins (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes capturing, by a sensor on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), an image of a delivery location. The method also includes determining, based on the image of the delivery location, a segmentation image. The segmentation image segments the deli...