US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on July 14 for "Method of aerial vehicle trajectory planning" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,481, issued on July 14, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Method of aerial vehicle trajectory planning" was invented by David Casbeer (Xenia, Ohio) and Satyanarayana Manyam (Beavercreek, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of aerial vehicle trajectory planning are provided. The method is used where the aerial vehicle is in an area with one or more obstacles therein and the aerial vehicle has a minimum turn radius. The methods involve finding safe flight corridors, which are constructed from sequences of triangles using constrained Delaunay ...