US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on April 14 for "Method for semantic localization of an unmanned aerial vehicle" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,924, issued on April 14, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method for semantic localization of an unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Ali Shoeb (San Rafael, Calif.), Kyle Kakligian (San Francisco), Damien Jourdan (Colomiers, France), Michael Zhong (New York), Ke Xu (Newark, Calif.) and Jeremie Gabor (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method comprises receiving an image captured by a camera on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The image depicts an environment below the UAV. A feature mask associated with the image is generated via a machine learning model that is tr...