US Patent Issued to Sunflower Labs on Oct. 20 for "Planning UAV inspections and discovering security events and activities using image analysis and generative AI" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,481, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Sunflower Labs Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Planning UAV inspections and discovering security events and activities using image analysis and generative AI" was invented by Yannik S. Nager (Zurich, Switzerland), Christian Eheim (Fallanden, Switzerland) and Alexander S. Pachikov (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conducting surveillance in an area includes a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) with a camera flying over specific portions of the area and capturing specific visual data based on a flight plan that indicates specific portions of the area that the UAV flies over and specific v...