US Patent Issued to AeroVironment on Feb. 24 for "Collision prediction and prevention for uncrewed vehicles" (Florida, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,096, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AeroVironment Inc. (Simi Valley, Calif.).

"Collision prediction and prevention for uncrewed vehicles" was invented by William S. Bowman (Melbourne, Fla.), Mark B. Moffett (Grant, Fla.), Daniel R. Hedman (Palm Bay, Fla.), Michael E. Bowman (Satellite Beach, Fla.), Bryce Korte (Austin, Texas) and Matthew D. Summer (Melbourne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for predicting collisions between uncrewed vehicles and preventing those collisions. A collision prevention system may generate collision spheroids for a multitude of uncrewed vehicles. Those collis...