US Patent Issued to Shanghai University on June 30 for "Method of vision-based long-range and short-range guidance for autonomous UAV landing" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,827, issued on June 30, was assigned to Shanghai University (Shanghai).

"Method of vision-based long-range and short-range guidance for autonomous UAV landing" was invented by Zhonghua Miao (Shanghai), Shengjie Piao (Shanghai), Nan Li (Shanghai), Bo Hu (Shanghai), Yunhui Li (Shanghai) and Chuangxin He (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) landing, including: collecting an unmanned vehicle image dataset in advance, training an unmanned vehicle detection model by using the unmanned vehicle image dataset combined with a YOLOv5 neural network; collecting, by the UAV dur...