US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 8 for "Aeronautical obstacle knowledge network" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,021, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Aeronautical obstacle knowledge network" was invented by Theresa Emsbach (Schoellkrippen, Germany) and Michael J. Browne (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system receives sensor data that includes, for a reporting aeronautical vehicle of a set of one or more reporting aeronautical vehicles, one or more images captured by the reporting aeronautical vehicle. For the image of the sensor data, the computing system identifies one or more candidate landing zones within the image. For the candidate landing zone identified, the computing system estimat...