ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,944, issued on May 12, was assigned to VHIVE TECH LTD (Herzliya, Israel).

"Autonomous UAS data acquisition with context awareness" was invented by Tomer Daniel (Givatayim, Israel), Amir Jacob Shenhav (Raanana, Israel), Doron Fine (Rishon Le-Zion, Israel) and Hadas Bar-David (Petah Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods are provided for generating photogrammetry data acquisition plans of target structures, including: establishing a location and orientation of the target structure; identifying on the target structure predetermined target objects designated for data acquisition; correlating shapes, locations, a...