Patents by Inventor Annie D. Nguyen

Annie D. Nguyen 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).

  • Machine vision enabled swarm guidance technology
    Patent number: 10073454
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a swarm of UAVs that are stored on and released from an airborne platform, fly to and destroy a target, where the UAVs download target information from the airborne platform before being released therefrom, do not communicate with each other or the airborne platform while in flight, and do not depend of the presence of GPS. Each UAV includes a vision sensor that provides image data, a navigation module that receives the image data and causes the UAV to navigate and fly towards the target, and a target destruction module that receives the image data and causes the UAV to destroy the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Omar Aboutalib, David W. Evans, Gregory L. Larson, Annie D. Nguyen, Richard R. Ramroth
  • MACHINE VISION ENABLED SWARM GUIDANCE TECHNOLOGY
    Publication number: 20180164820
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a swarm of UAVs that are stored on and released from an airborne platform, fly to and destroy a target, where the UAVs download target information from the airborne platform before being released therefrom, do not communicate with each other or the airborne platform while in flight, and do not depend of the presence of GPS. Each UAV includes a vision sensor that provides image data, a navigation module that receives the image data and causes the UAV to navigate and fly towards the target, and a target destruction module that receives the image data and causes the UAV to destroy the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: OMAR ABOUTALIB, David W. Evans, Gregory L. Larson, Annie D. Nguyen, Richard R. Ramroth