US Patent Issued to FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems on Aug. 25 for "Autonomous monitoring by unmanned aerial vehicle systems and methods" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,018, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems ULC (Vancouver, Canada).

"Autonomous monitoring by unmanned aerial vehicle systems and methods" was invented by Marco P. Pedrosa (Waterloo, Canada), Spencer Quin (Kitchener, Canada) and Richard Cunha (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods directed to autonomous monitoring by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are provided. A system may include a UAV including a camera configured to capture a stream of images of a scene. The system further includes one or more logic devices configured to control an automatic flight of the UAV to capture the stream ...