ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,288, issued on March 24.
"Event triggered drone system and method for image collection and transmission" was invented by Henry Hardy Perritt Jr. (Charlottesville, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous system and method for capturing event-driven aerial imagery utilizes a drone equipped with advanced sensors and navigation subsystems to operate without human intervention. Upon detecting predefined target events, such as structure fires, explosions, gunshots, emergency sirens, a specific license place, or a specific face, the drone autonomously launches and employs direction-finding triangulation to pinpoint the event's lat...