US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on July 28 for "Intelligent autonomous and semi-autonomous variable altitude vehicle deployment system and method" (Texas, Illinois, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,347, issued on July 28, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Intelligent autonomous and semi-autonomous variable altitude vehicle deployment system and method" was invented by Brian Howard Katz (San Antonio), Surender Kumar (Palatine, Ill.), Jeffrey Thomas Cavanaugh (Sun City, Ariz.), Daniel Diaz (San Antonio), Jennifer Holly Nance (San Antonio) and Robert Christian Law (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damage response system for deploying autonomous vehicles and providing services to a disaster-impacted location is disclosed. The system includes a damage detection module and a de...