US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on Sept. 9 for "Efficient raster data range query for planned UAV flight segments" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,478, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Efficient raster data range query for planned UAV flight segments" was invented by Theran Cochran (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system obtains a raster cell of terrain data from a database, a query shape corresponding to a planned flight segment of a UAV that intersects with the raster cell, and a range of acceptable terrain elevation values for the planned flight segment. The raster cell comprises a minimum terrain elevation value, a maximum terrain elevation value, and links to sub-cells of the raster cell. The computer syste...