US Patent Issued to AeroVironment on July 14 for "Machine to machine targeting maintaining positive identification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,474, issued on July 14, was assigned to AeroVironment Inc. (Arlington, Va.).

"Machine to machine targeting maintaining positive identification" was invented by Macdonald John Peebles (Chatsworth, Calif.), Andrew Martin (Encino, Calif.), Charles Lawrence Baker (Moorpark, Calif.), Daisy Wang (Simi Valley, Calif.), Kevin Jay Aguilar (Simi Valley, Calif.), Matthew Allen Hanna (Montrose, Calif.), Brian Young (Simi Valley, Calif.), Eric Sornborger (Los Angeles) and Eric James Aagaard (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of targeting, which involves capturing a first video of a scene about a potential targeting coordinate by...