US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on March 31 for "Method and system for on-board localization" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,156, issued on March 31, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Method and system for on-board localization" was invented by Roland Brockers (Pasadena, Calif.), Friedrich Alexander Dietsche (Herrliberg, Switzerland), Jeff Hugues Luc Delaune (Pasadena, Calif.), Pedro Proenca (Pasadena, Calif.), Robert Alexander Hewitt (Tujunga, Calif.) and Georgios Georgakis (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system provide for on-board localization in a unmanned aerial system (UAS). A map image is generated (using previously acquired images) of an area that the UAS is overflying. The map im...