Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Managing dynamic obstructions in air traffic control systems for unmanned aerial vehicles
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Application No.: US15292782Application Date: 2016-10-13
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Publication No.: US10713961B2Publication Date: 2020-07-14
- Inventor: Lee Priest
- Applicant: Lee Priest
- Applicant Address: US NC Huntersville
- Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
- Current Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Huntersville
- Agency: Clements Bernard Walker
- Agent Lawrence A. Baratta, Jr.
- Main IPC: G06F17/00
- IPC: G06F17/00 ; G08G5/04 ; G08G5/00 ; B64C39/02 ; G01S13/86 ; G06K9/00 ; G05D1/10 ; G01S13/933

Abstract:
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) includes flight components attached or disposed to a base; one or more cameras; radar; one or more wireless interfaces; a processing device communicatively coupled to the flight components, the one or more cameras, the radar, and the wireless interfaces; and memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processing device to monitor proximate airspace with one or more of the one or more cameras and the radar; detect an obstruction based on the monitor; identify characteristics of the obstruction; alter a flight plan, through the flight components, if required based on the characteristics; and communicate the obstruction to an air traffic control system via the one or more wireless interfaces.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170358228A1 MANAGING DYNAMIC OBSTRUCTIONS IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES Public/Granted day:2017-12-14
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