US Patent Issued to Baalaganapathy Manohar, University of Florida Research Foundation on Feb. 24 for "Drone-based lowest floor elevation" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,973, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Baalaganapathy Manohar (Lexington, Ky.) and University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Drone-based lowest floor elevation" was invented by Baalaganapathy Manohar (Gainesville, Fla.), Rahul Aggarwal (Gainesville, Fla.), Ravi S. Srinivasan (Gainesville, Fla.), Sourabh Kakade (Gainesville, Fla.) and Qusai Nalawala (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods for acquiring structural attributes of a building. One such method comprises acquiring, by one or more cameras of an unmanned aerial vehicle, infrared thermal ...