US Patent Issued to INSITU INC. A SUBSIDIARY OF THE BOEING on March 31 for "Route planning for a ground vehicle through unfamiliar terrain" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,816, issued on March 31, was assigned to INSITU INC. A SUBSIDIARY OF THE BOEING COMPANY (Bingen, Wash.).

"Route planning for a ground vehicle through unfamiliar terrain" was invented by Kalani A. Armstrong (Alderley, Australia) and Andrew P. Lancaster (Alderley, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for supporting one or more ground vehicles on a mission that includes traversal of a ground region. The method includes accessing geospatial data produced from an aerial survey of the ground region, and performing an analysis of the geospatial data to produce terrain data that describes the ground region. The terr...