Patents by Inventor Andrew Straatvelt

Andrew Straatvelt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • AUTONOMOUS AERIAL VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20200160733
    Abstract: A method for autonomously navigating an aerial vehicle along a railroad track includes obtaining, from one or more cameras coupled to the aerial vehicle, image data reproducible as an image of a portion of the railroad track, identifying, based at least in part on the image data, a first rail and a second rail of the portion of the railroad track, determining, based at least in part on the identified first and second rails of the portion of the railroad track, a centerline of the portion of the railroad track, and generating, based at least in part on the determined centerline, flight instructions to cause the aerial vehicle to move relative to the railroad track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Matthew Dick, Tarek Shalaby, Amaury Rolin, Andrew Straatvelt, Sajjad Meymand, Jeffrey Bloom, Anthony Kim, Humberto Fernandez, Zhipeng Liu, Samson Yilma, Xin Chen