US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on Sept. 29 for "Optical measurement system to land an aerial vehicle" (Florida, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,032, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Optical measurement system to land an aerial vehicle" was invented by Timothy Schmidt (Port St. Lucie, Fla.), Roderick S. Duplin (Jupiter, Fla.), Robert S. Takacs (Oxford, Conn.) and Karl B. Scherer (Jupiter, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aerial navigation is disclosed. A system can receive, via a camera coupled to the aerial vehicle, image frames of a platform. The system can generate, via a first model trained with machine learning on reference patterns, a feature map that identifies a predetermined pattern. The system can input, responsive to r...