US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 22 for "System, apparatus, and method for providing augmented reality assistance to wayfinding and precision landing controls of an unmanned aerial vehicle to differently oriented inspection targets" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,091, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System, apparatus, and method for providing augmented reality assistance to wayfinding and precision landing controls of an unmanned aerial vehicle to differently oriented inspection targets" was invented by Abdulrahman Althobaiti (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Fadl Abdellatif (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle using a control apparatus, comprises: executing a navigation process by: obtaining a live video moving image from a navigation camera device of the UAV; and generating a na...