US Patent Issued to University of Kansas on Aug. 11 for "Techniques for analyzing and mapping geographic areas using UAS" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,897, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kan.).

"Techniques for analyzing and mapping geographic areas using UAS" was invented by Haiyang Chao (Lawrence, Kan.), Saket Gowravaram Navalur (Lawrence, Kan.) and Zhenghao Lin (Lawrence, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for extracting information from image data captured using an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The disclosed systems and methods may capture image data using an imaging device mounted to the UAS, which may include a plurality of images of an environment. Each image may be associated with a pa...