US Patent Issued to Wayne State University on Feb. 24 for "Smart landing platform with data-driven analytic procedures for unmanned aerial vehicle pre-flight diagnosis" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,268, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Wayne State University (Detroit).

"Smart landing platform with data-driven analytic procedures for unmanned aerial vehicle pre-flight diagnosis" was invented by Zhenyu Zhou (Detroit) and Yanchao Liu (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart landing platform system includes a flat and rigid platform for landing a drone and having a geometrical center, a center of gravity and a weight, a digital scale disposed beneath the platform for providing measurements of a weight distribution of the platform and the drone, and a control unit connected to the digital scale for instantaneous data co...