US Patent Issued to AeroVironment on Feb. 24 for "Survey migration system for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS)" (California, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,981, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AeroVironment Inc. (Arlington, Va.).

"Survey migration system for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS)" was invented by Christopher Eugene Fisher (Leo, Ind.), Jason Sidharthadev Mukherjee (Simi Valley, Calif.), William Arden Lott (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Eric James Aagaard (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of migrating unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations between geographic survey areas, including: uploading a first plurality of flight missions into a first UAV pod; deploying the UAV pod; autonomously launching the UAV from the UAV pod a p...