US Patent Issued to FLYABILITY on April 14 for "VTOL UAV with 3D lidar sensor" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,504, issued on April 14, was assigned to FLYABILITY SA (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"VTOL UAV with 3D lidar sensor" was invented by Kevin Jamolli (Pully, Switzerland), Romain Conti (Epalinges, Switzerland), Stefano Zampieri (Lausanne, Switzerland), Ludovic Daler (Chardonne, Switzerland) and Adrien Briod (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VTOL UAV comprising a chassis, a propulsion system mounted on the chassis, electronics including a flight control system, and a 3D LIDAR sensor mounted on the chassis. The 3D LIDAR sensor has a laser beam 360deg rotation axis (R) and an azimuthal scanning angle (Alpha) in a range of...