US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on Dec. 9 for "Map including data for routing aerial vehicles during GNSS failure" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,138, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Map including data for routing aerial vehicles during GNSS failure" was invented by Martin Kubie (San Francisco) and Dinuka Abeywardena (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a propulsion system, a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) sensor, a camera and a controller. The controller includes logic that, in response to execution by the controller, causes the UAV to in response to detecting a loss of tracking by the GNSS sensor determine an estimated location of the UAV on a map based on a locatio...