ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,336, issued on March 3, was assigned to THINKWARE Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method, apparatus and computer program to detect dangerous object for aerial vehicle" was invented by Yo Sep Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Suk Pil Ko (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Shin Hyoung Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of detecting a dangerous object for an aerial vehicle. The method includes setting an object detection area in air in which the aerial vehicle is in flight using a first sensor, a second sensor, and a third sensor; detecting an object in the set object detection area; generati...