US Patent Issued to AeroVironment on Aug. 11 for "Multimode unmanned aerial vehicle" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,355, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AeroVironment Inc. (Arlington, Va.).

"Multimode unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Carlos Thomas Miralles (Burbank, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to transition from a terminal homing mode to a target search mode, responsive to an uplink signal and/or an autonomous determination of scene change."

The patent was filed on May 9, 2024, under Application No. 18/659,381.

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