US Patent Issued on Sept. 22 for "Aerial drone navigation system with lidar mapping" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,734, issued on Sept. 22.

"Aerial drone navigation system with lidar mapping" was invented by William Hart (Aptos, Calif.), Edmond A. DeFrank (Northridge, Calif.), Antonio DeFrank (Northridge, Calif.), Nicolas DeFrank (Northridge, Calif.) and Allen Mark Jones (Imperial Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments disclose an aerial drone navigation system including an aerial drone having a camera, LIDAR detection device, and autonomous navigation sensors, a computer vision system onboard the drone identifies human or animal targets using artificial intelligence, a mobile device wirelessly coupled to the drone receives...