US Patent Issued to NEC on Dec. 2 for "Near real-time reconstruction using drones" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,607, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Near real-time reconstruction using drones" was invented by Eugene Chai (Monmouth Junction, N.J.), Karthikeyan Sundaresan (Manalapan, N.J.) and Sampath Rangarajan (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically constructing a 3-dimensional (3D) model of a feature using a drone. The method includes generating a reconnaissance flight path that minimizes battery usage by the drone, and conducting a discovery flight that uses the reconnaissance flight path. The method further includes transmitting reconnaissance laser sensor data from the dr...