US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for drone-based asset surveillance and localization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,458, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for drone-based asset surveillance and localization" was invented by Huimin Zhuge (Santa Clara, Calif.), Gregory Sin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chandrasekar Venkatraman (Saratoga, Calif.), Song Wang (San Carlos, Calif.) and Chetan Gupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein involve automated aerial surveillance of assets with dynamic flight path optimization and comprise obtaining a satellite image of a monitored area, defining a region of interest (ROI), computing an initial flight path for a drone to capture t...