US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on Jan. 13 for "UAV flight control operations for predicted traffic encounter" (Texas, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,135, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"UAV flight control operations for predicted traffic encounter" was invented by Kevin Jenkins (Dallas) and John Gordon Mooney (Athens, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving an indication of presence of an aircraft in a vicinity of an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) which is flying along a flight path. The method also includes decelerating, based on the received indication, the UAV to reduce a ground speed along the flight path. The method additionally includes descending, after reducing the ground speed, the ...