US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on July 14 for "Correcting erroneous UAV positioning information using semantically segmented images" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,771, issued on July 14, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Correcting erroneous UAV positioning information using semantically segmented images" was invented by Ali Shoeb (San Rafael, Calif.), Damien Jourdan (San Jose, Calif.) and Jeremie Gabor (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method for autonomous navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is provided. The UAV determines a tracked position using at least one positioning sensor of the UAV. The UAV captures an image using a camera of the UAV. The UAV determines a visual position confidence area using the captured ima...