US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods to determine flight paths for aerial vehicles based on risk" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,316, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods to determine flight paths for aerial vehicles based on risk" was invented by Cameron Yujin Colpitts (Seattle), Javier Alonso Lopez (Edmonds, Wash.), Dale Lawrence Henderson (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and Nupur Bansal (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are example systems and methods generally directed to systems and methods for determining and managing flight planning and operations for unmanned vehicles, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The described systems and methods can facilitate generation of a risk-weighted mo...