US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 28 for "System of navigation and alert mechanism in unfavorable weather conditions using a network of collaborating drones" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,684, issued on July 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"System of navigation and alert mechanism in unfavorable weather conditions using a network of collaborating drones" was invented by Girish Padmanabhan (Pune, India), Dibyendu Chandra (Pune, India), Suman Karmakar (Pune, India) and Bhuvana Sundarri Adhi Moolam (Coimbatore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes using an image captured by a vehicle camera on the vehicle to determine a vehicle visibility distance for the vehicle with a computing device on the vehicle. The determined vehicle visibility dista...