US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Nov. 3 for "Method for setting flight path of unmanned aerial vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,976, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for setting flight path of unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Makoto Hirai (Tokyo), Ichiro Oba (Tokyo) and Takuro Yamaji (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for setting a flight path of an unmanned aerial vehicle includes calculating an availability state, in an unmanned aerial vehicle, of artificial satellites based on a positional relationship between the artificial satellites constituting a global navigation satellite system and the unmanned aerial vehicle at any of points in a scheduled path of the unmanned aerial vehicle flyi...