US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 19 for "Forecasting wind conditions for operations of uncrewed aerial vehicles" (Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,065, issued on May 19, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Forecasting wind conditions for operations of uncrewed aerial vehicles" was invented by Jeffrey Massey (Issaquah, Wash.), Marco Giovanni Giometto (New York), John Colton Moriarty (Seattle), Raymond Kim (Seattle), Yanzhe Yin (Bellevue, Wash.), Tarun Sai Ganesh Nerella (Seattle) and Vineet Vilas Amonkar (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Grids representing predictions of wind vectors (or velocities) over a ground region are obtained from a model and downscaled to a greater level of resolution based on surface roughness metrics of the ground region. Observat...