US Patent Issued to THALES on April 21 for "Method for determining valley areas accessible by an aircraft" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,835, issued on April 21, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Method for determining valley areas accessible by an aircraft" was invented by Aurelien Thiriet (Merignac, France) and Lionel Gayraud (Palaiseau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for determining valley areas accessible by an aircraft, the method being implemented by an electronic device, the method including the following steps: obtaining an initial image of an environment including areas of valleys; processing the initial image so as to eliminate the imaged elements on the initial image, the dimension of the elements being less than a ...