US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on Sept. 30 for "Autonomous detect and avoid from speech recognition and analysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,886, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Autonomous detect and avoid from speech recognition and analysis" was invented by John Mooney (Felton, Calif.) and Ali Shoeb (San Rafael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for detecting and avoiding obstacles by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes: querying a knowledge graph having information related to a dynamic obstacle that may be in proximity to the UAV when traveling along a planned route; comparing the location of the dynamic obstacle to the UAV to detect conflicts; and in response to detecting a conflict, performing an acti...