US Patent Issued to RELIABLE ROBOTICS on April 21 for "System and method for modifying validated routes for an aircraft" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,039, issued on April 21, was assigned to RELIABLE ROBOTICS Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for modifying validated routes for an aircraft" was invented by Robert W. Rose (Mountain View, Calif.) and Michael Westenhaver (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving, from a ground station and at an aircraft computing system onboard the aircraft, a definition of a primary route, the primary route representing a trajectory, for the aircraft, from an origin location to a destination location, causing the aircraft to autonomously traverse the primary route using a flight controller, ...