ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,915, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TOP SEVEN GMBH & Co. KG (Starnberg, Germany).

"Method and system for object detection" was invented by Ulrich Seng (Starnberg, Germany), Oliver Neubauer (Starnberg, Germany) and Herbert Stocker (Starnberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting an object describable by a plurality of predetermined features comprises flying along the object and detecting several portions of the object using at least one recording unit. Each of the portions is detected multiple times from different positions of the recording unit to generate a set of images. Position and location informat...