US Patent Issued to Jimei Univisity on Aug. 11 for "Method for optimized autonomous drone swarm path planning" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,859, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Jimei Univisity (Xiamen, China).

"Method for optimized autonomous drone swarm path planning" was invented by Yendo Hu (San Diego), Yiliang Wu (Xiamen, China), Weican Chen (Xiamen, China) and Haichen Li (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for unmaned aerial vehicles (UAV) swarm path planning based on potential field optimization. The method incorporates considerations of inter-UAV interaction forces, a collision risk calculation mechanism based on safe distance angles, and an auxiliary target point strategy. The system calculates collision risk by linearly dividing...