US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on March 4 for "Pixel-by-pixel segmentation of aerial imagery for autonomous vehicle control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,282, issued on March 4, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Pixel-by-pixel segmentation of aerial imagery for autonomous vehicle control" was invented by Christopher Cobar (Mountain View, Calif.), Jeremie Gabor (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ali Shoeb (San Rafael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is provided. The UAV comprises one or more processors; a camera; one or more propulsion devices; and a computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the one or more processors, cause the UAV to perform actions comprisin...