ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,493, issued on July 14, was assigned to SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Aircraft control method and apparatus, aircraft, and storage medium" was invented by Jie Qian (Shenzhen, China), Hualiang Qiu (Shenzhen, China) and Zhenzhou Lai (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UAV control method, a device, a UAV, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining a UAV's take-off position; obtaining a height map of an area around the take-off position; determining height information of a highest target in the area around the take-off position based on the height map; determining a relative height be...