US Patent Issued to Ocean Aero on June 23 for "System and method to avoid obstacles in an autonomous unmanned maritime vehicle" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,897, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ocean Aero Inc. (Gulfport, Miss.).

"System and method to avoid obstacles in an autonomous unmanned maritime vehicle" was invented by Charles Smith (Gulfport, Miss.), Matthew Kuhn (Diberville, Miss.), Jeremy Todter (Margaret River, Australia) and Mark Henderson (Kiln, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting and avoiding an obstacle of an autonomous unmanned maritime vehicle (UMV) traveling in an initial direction are described. The method and system include receiving a video image from at least one image sensor, the video image containing an object that has been id...