ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,357, issued on April 7, was assigned to JOBY AERO INC. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
"Automatic aircraft taxiing" was invented by Oleksii Shyman (Martinez, Calif.), Edward Lim (Pacifica, Calif.), Maxime Gariel (San Francisco), Joshua Rosenkranz (San Francisco), Craig Milliard (Vallejo, Calif.), Ryan Olson (San Francisco) and Sui Nam Chan (Sacramento, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable medium includes computer-executable instructions that cause one or more processing units to acquire an airport map that includes a plurality of edge data structures. Each of the edge data structures includes a plurality of ...