US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on Sept. 9 for "Visual detection and localization of package autoloaders by UAV" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,301, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Visual detection and localization of package autoloaders by UAV" was invented by David Stonestrom (Mountain View, Calif.), Ali Shoeb (San Rafael, Calif.) and Marcus Hammond (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for a UAV includes: acquiring an aerial image of an area below a UAV that includes one or more instances of an object; analyzing the aerial image with an image classifier to classify select pixels of the aerial image as being keypoint pixels associated with keypoints of the object; grouping the keypoint pixels into one o...