ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,039, issued on March 24.
"System and method for UXO detection" was invented by Tobias Leininger (Waakirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting, locating, and removing UXO is disclosed. The system uses a drone-device equipped with a metal detector that fully integrates military-grade metal detection capability. The system flies terrain with centimeter precision using onboard LIDAR, SONAR, and RADAR sensors at altitudes as low as 20 cm. The system achieves exact RTK GPS pinpoint location of targets within centimeters. The system also provides numerous mission-planning GUIs for tablets and smartph...