ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,116, issued on May 19, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).
"Systems and methods for performing an autonomous aircraft visual inspection task" was invented by Arindam Saha (Kolkata, India), Mohan Bhaskara (Bangalore, India), Ranjan Dasgupta (Kolkata, India), Lokesh Kumar (Kolkata, India) and Sarvesh Sortee (Kolkata, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides system and method for performing an autonomous aircraft visual inspection task using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV is equipped with a front-facing RGB-D camera, one Velodyne three dimensional Light Detection and Ranging wit...