Drone Patents — August 2015
US Pat. No. 9,096,314, Electric VTOL aircraft.
The following drone patents were granted in August 2015:
| PAT. NO. |
Title |
| 9,119,179 |
Skypoint for mobile hotspots |
| 9,117,269 |
Method for recognizing objects in a set of images recorded by one or more cameras |
| 9,117,185 |
Forestry management system |
| 9,114,720 |
Vehicle positioning system for wireless charging stations |
| 9,114,707 |
Vehicle control system for making a control target of vehicle control appropriate |
| 9,114,440 |
Outdoor home cleaning robot–system and method |
| 9,113,590 |
Methods, apparatus, and systems for determining in-season crop status in an agricultural crop and alerting users |
| 9,112,108 |
Energy source and method for supplying an autonomous electrical load system and the use of same |
| 9,110,471 |
Systems and methods for multi-modal control of a vehicle |
| 9,110,196 |
Detecting road weather conditions |
| 9,110,183 |
Systems and methods for remote electromagnetic exploration for mineral and energy resources using stationary long-range transmitters |
| 9,110,170 |
Terrain aided navigation using multi-channel monopulse radar imaging |
| 9,108,729 |
Autonomous control of unmanned aerial vehicles |
| 9,108,713 |
Elevon control system |
| 9,106,810 |
Maritime safety systems for crew and passengers |
| 9,105,964 |
Airborne satellite communications system |
| 9,104,206 |
Self-steering vehicle |
| 9,104,201 |
Method and apparatus for dynamic swarming of airborne drones for a reconfigurable array |
| 9,103,937 |
Systems and methods for holographic navigation |
| 9,102,406 |
Controlling unmanned aerial vehicles as a flock to synchronize flight in aerial displays |
| 9,102,335 |
Vehicle and method for controlling a vehicle |
| 9,102,281 |
Rear-view mirror for a vehicle with a set of indicator lights |
| 9,099,004 |
Object differentiation warning system |
| 9,098,954 |
Portable self-contained totally integrated electronic security and control system |
| 9,098,080 |
Systems and methods for switching between autonomous and manual operation of a vehicle |
| 9,097,804 |
Object and ground segmentation from a sparse one-dimensional range data |
| 9,097,800 |
Solid object detection system using laser and radar sensor fusion |
| 9,097,549 |
Learning automated vehicle |
| 9,097,527 |
Method and system for generating a route |
| 9,096,314 |
Electric VTOL aircraft |
| 9,096,199 |
Monitoring autonomous vehicle braking |
| 9,096,150 |
Autonomous vehicle with reconfigurable seats |
| 9,096,106 |
Multi-role unmanned vehicle system and associated methods |
| 9,095,116 |
Device for removing manure from a floor, in particular a closed floor |
Drone Patent Applications — August 2015
The following drone patent applications were published in August 2015:
Definitions
Since drones use a very wide range of technologies (please see our drone technology article), we do not attempt to include every patent or application that could be applied to drones. As we use it here, the term “drone” includes any autonomous vehicle. Please let us know if we have missed any important patents.
Drone patent applications are applications that have been filed with and published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Although most applications are published, a small percentage (about 7% nation wide) are not published for various reasons. Patent applications are generally published 18 months after the first priority date of the application. Published applications have not necessarily been examined and some applications will be abandoned after publication. Once an application is examined and approved and all fees and formalities have been satisfied, the Patent Office grants a patent.
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