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| 1 | 10878588 | Detection and replacement of transient obstructions from high elevation digital images | Implementations relate to detecting/replacing transient obstructions from high-elevation digital images. A digital image of a geographic area includes pixels that align spatially with respective geographic units of the geographic area. Analysis of the digital image may uncover obscured pixel (s) that align spatially with geographic unit (s) of the geographic area that are obscured by transient obstruction (s) . Domain fingerprint (s) of the obscured geographic unit (s) may be determined across pixels of a corpus of digital images that align spatially with the one or more obscured geographic units. Unobscured pixel (s) of the same/different digital image may be identified that align spatially with unobscured geographic unit (s) of the geographic area. The unobscured geographic unit (s) also may have domain fingerprint (s) that match the domain fingerprint (s) of the obscured geographic unit (s) . Replacement pixel data may be calculated based on the unobscured pixels and used to generate a transient-obstruction-free version of the digital image. | Jie Yang (Sunnyvale, CA), Cheng-en Guo (Santa Clara, CA), Elliott Grant (Woodside, CA) | X Development Llc (Mountain View, CA) | 2018-06-22 | 2020-12-29 | G06K9/00, G06K9/32, H04N7/18, G06T7/33, G06K9/62, G06K9/66, G06K9/40 | 16/016495 |
| 2 | 10810115 | Systems and methods using artificial intelligence to identify, test, and verify system modifications | A computer device may include a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to identify changes in source code of an application, generate a plurality of source code keywords based on the identified changes in the source code, and map the generated plurality of source code keywords to a plurality of testing keywords. The processor may be further configured to identify a plurality of test cases from a test cases database based on the plurality of testing keywords and inject the plurality of test cases into a testing queue of a testing system associated with the application. The computer device may further determine that the injected plurality of test cases sufficiently tested the changes in the source code and, based on the determining, update a deployed instance of the application to include the changes in the source code. | Nagaraju Manchiraju (Bridgewater, NJ), Ravi K. Kotyala (Edison, NJ), Satya V. Nemana (East Windsor, NJ) | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) | 2017-12-21 | 2020-10-20 | G06F9/44, G06F11/36, G06N3/08, G06F8/71, G06F8/65 | 15/850532 |
| 3 | 10742329 | Drone enabled global communications system for underwater platforms | A method, apparatus, and system for facilitating communications with an underwater platform. A radio frequency signal is received at an antenna system connected to an unmanned aerial vehicle. Information is encoded in the radio frequency signal. The information in the radio frequency signal is placed into a laser beam. The transmitting the laser beam from the unmanned aerial vehicle to an underwater platform submerged in a body of water. | Nathan D. Hiller (Irvine, CA) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, IL) | 2018-08-22 | 2020-08-11 | H04B10/80, B64C39/02, H04B10/50 | 16/108542 |
| 4 | 10708806 | Systems and methods for a self-organizing network based on user equipment information | A computer device may include a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to determine network slices for a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices associated with a base station wherein a particular network slice identifies a particular service category or a UE device attribute category associated with particular ones of the plurality of UE devices, determine a distribution of network slices for the base station based on the determined network slices for the plurality of UE devices, and determine an adjustment for an optimization parameter based on the distribution of network slices for the base station. The computer device may be further configured to adjust the optimization parameter for the base station based on the determined adjustment, wherein adjusted optimization parameter is used by the base station to manage data traffic associated with the plurality of UE devices. | Jin Yang (Orinda, CA), Ratul K. Guha (Kendall Park, NJ), Edmond K. Chan (Chester, NJ) | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) | 2018-01-02 | 2020-07-07 | H04L12/00, H04L12/26, H04W24/02, H04W28/02, H04W16/28, H04W36/30, H04W40/34, H04W84/18, H04L12/24, H04L29/08 | 15/860083 |
| 5 | 10703476 | Method and apparatus for intelligent inspection and interaction between a vehicle and a drone | An approach is provided for intelligent inspection and interaction between a vehicle and a drone. The approach, for example, involves retrieving vehicle specification data for the vehicle. The vehicle specification data identifies one or more sensors of the vehicle, one or more sensor locations on the vehicle corresponding to the one or more sensors, or a combination thereof. The approach also involves configuring the drone device to move from a docked location to the one or more sensor locations on the vehicle based on the vehicle specification data. The approach further involves initiating an inspection function, an interaction function, or a combination thereof between the drone device and the vehicle when the drone device is positioned in proximity to the one or more sensor locations. | Ryan Allard (Fargo, ND), Frank Kozak (Naperville, IL) | Here Global B.V. (Eindhoven, NL) | 2017-08-17 | 2020-07-07 | B64C39/02, G05D1/00, B64D47/08, G06Q10/00, B60R16/023 | 15/679856 |
| 6 | 10631148 | Systems and methods for QoS aware SIM refresh | A computer device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to receive a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) refresh request. The processor may be further configured to identify one or more Quality of Service (QoS) classes for which, if an active communication session exists that is associated with at least one of the QoS classes, a SIM refresh should be rejected, access a database of active communication sessions associated with the UE device, determine that an active session, stored in the database of active communication sessions, is associated with at least one of the one or more QoS classes, and reject the SIM refresh request based on determining that the active session is associated with at least one of the one or more QoS classes. | Deepa Jagannatha (Bridgewater, NJ), Taussif Khan (Martinsville, NJ) | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) | 2019-02-06 | 2020-04-21 | H04W4/60, H04W12/00, H04L12/24, H04L29/06, H04W84/04 | 16/268809 |
| 7 | 10630376 | Apparatus for adaptive dynamic wireless aerial mesh network | Embodiments include an apparatus for an adaptive dynamic wireless aerial mesh network having aerial nodes that provides real-time persistent wide area communications service to provide communications in response to an incident. Typically, the service area is a wide area that is physically inaccessible via ground transportation. In addition, embodiments include the formation of a decentralized mesh supernetwork comprising two or more dynamic wireless aerial mesh networks. A member of a first dynamic wireless aerial mesh network may send a request to a member of a second dynamic wireless aerial mesh network for the first dynamic wireless aerial mesh network to join the second dynamic wireless aerial mesh network to form a mesh supernetwork, and receive an acceptance from the member of the second dynamic wireless aerial mesh network. | Joseph R. Mazzarella (Tolland, CT), Michael S. Wengrovitz (Concord, MA) | --- | 2018-06-18 | 2020-04-21 | H04B7/185, H04W72/04, H04W4/90, B64C39/02, H04L29/06, H04W84/18, B64D47/08, H04W84/08, H04L29/12 | 16/010769 |
| 8 | 10627386 | System for monitoring crops and soil conditions | According to an aspect, a system for monitoring crops and soil conditions below a crop canopy includes a retractable boom assembly adapted to be coupled to an unmanned aerial vehicle. Further according to this aspect, the boom assembly includes an actuator and an elongate probe is coupled to the retractable boom assembly. Still further, the system includes a controller for maneuvering the elongate probe below the crop canopy while the boom assembly is extended by the actuator. | Orlando Saez (Chicago, IL), Tim Golly (Lakeville, MN), Todd Golly (Winnebago, MN) | Aker Technologies, Inc. (Chicago, IL) | 2017-10-12 | 2020-04-21 | G01N33/24, B64D47/00, G01N33/00, B64C39/02, A01B79/00, G01N33/02 | 15/782806 |
| 9 | 10619625 | Power generating windbags and waterbags | A method of using a bagged power generation system comprising windbags and waterbags integrated with drones and adapting drone technologies for harnessing wind and water power to produce electricity. An extremely scalable and environmentally friendly method, system, apparatus, equipment, techniques and ecosystem configured to produce renewable green energy with high productivity and efficiency. | Yik Hei Sia (Johor Bahru, MY) | --- | 2019-03-11 | 2020-04-14 | F03D7/06, F03B17/06, F03D15/10, F03D9/30, F03D5/00, F03D5/02, H02K7/06, H02K7/18, F03D9/25, B64C39/02, F03D9/00 | 16/298043 |
| 10 | 10529241 | Unmanned vehicle recognition and threat management | Systems and methods for automated unmanned aerial vehicle recognition. A multiplicity of receivers captures RF data and transmits the RF data to at least one node device. The at least one node device comprises a signal processing engine, a detection engine, a classification engine, and a direction finding engine. The at least one node device is configured with an artificial intelligence algorithm. The detection engine and classification engine are trained to detect and classify signals from unmanned vehicles and their controllers based on processed data from the signal processing engine. The direction finding engine is operable to provide lines of bearing for detected unmanned vehicles. | David William Kleinbeck (Lees Summit, MO) | Digital Global Systems, Inc. (Tysons Corner, VA) | 2019-02-14 | 2020-01-07 | G08G5/00, G06N3/08, G01S3/04, G06N7/00, G01S3/46 | 16/275575 |
| 11 | 10484892 | Contextualized network optimization | A computer device may include a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to classify a plurality of base station sectors into a plurality of context categories based on a context that includes a measure of cell density and a measure of mobility. The processor may be further configured to select a context category from the plurality of context categories, determine a coverage and quality optimization parameter adjustment, a capacity optimization parameter adjustment, and a accessibility optimization parameter adjustment for a subset of the base station sectors classified in the selected context category, and instruct base stations associated with the subset of base station sectors to implement the coverage and quality optimization parameter adjustment, the capacity optimization parameter adjustment, and the accessibility optimization parameter adjustment. | Krishna K. Bellamkonda (McKinney, TX), Vijay T. Madhav (Folsom, CA) | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, NJ) | 2018-02-20 | 2019-11-19 | H04W24/02, H04W24/04, H04W16/18, H04L12/24, H04W74/08, H04W88/08 | 15/899845 |
| 12 | 10410291 | Systems and methods for analyzing unmanned aerial missions | A system for determining drone operation rules configured to (i) receive a plurality of telematics data from a plurality of missions, (ii) analyze the plurality of telematics data to determine one or more mission trends, and (iii) determine one or more rules based upon the one or more mission trends. | Todd Binion (Bloomington, IL), Jennifer Criswell Kellett (Bloomington, IL), Jeremy Carnahan (Bloomington, IL), Matt Megyese (Bloomington, IL) | State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (Bloomington, IL) | 2017-04-07 | 2019-09-10 | G06Q40/08, G07C5/00, G01C23/00, B64C39/02 | 15/482300 |
| 13 | 10405463 | Multi-rotor aerial drone with vapor chamber | A quad-rotor or other unmanned aerial drone having a planar vapor chamber mounted to a processor of the drone to cool the processor. The processor may be enclosed in a protective central housing. The vapor chamber is mounted, in some examples, with a perimeter of the vapor chamber extending from the processor through the housing into an airflow region near the rotors of the drone so that airflow, which may include propeller wash, serves to cool the perimeter of the vapor chamber. The planar vapor chamber cools the enclosed processor using both phase-change cooling/heat spreading (i.e. heat is dissipated from the processor via evaporation and subsequent condensation) and convection (i.e. airflow passing over the perimeter of the vapor chamber carries heat away) . | Jorge Rosales (San Diego, CA), Victor Chiriac (Phoenix, AZ), Jose Gilberto Corleto Mena (San Diego, CA) | Qualcomm Incorporated (San Diego, CA) | 2017-06-16 | 2019-09-03 | H05K7/20, B64C39/02, H05K1/02, F28D15/02 | 15/625129 |
| 14 | 10371567 | Intelligent noise monitoring device and noise monitoring method using the same | An intelligent noise monitoring device includes a self-flying moving module, a noise measurement module equipped in the moving module to measure noise of a target to be detected, a control module configured to control the moving module and the noise measurement module, and a communication module configured to communicate with a ground control center, wherein the intelligent noise monitoring device flies to a location to be detected to measure the noise of the location to be detected so as to determine whether or not the measured noise is in an abnormal state. | Sang Jin Lee (Daegu, KR) | Doosan Heavy Industries Construction Co., Ltd (Gyeongsangnam-do, KR) | 2015-07-22 | 2019-08-06 | G01H3/04, G05D1/12, G01H3/10, G08G5/00, G01H3/00 | 14/805730 |
| 15 | 10317904 | Underwater leading drone system | Systems and methods are provided for least one leading drone configured to move to a leading drone future location based on a future location of a base station. A set of base station future locations may form a base station path for the base station to traverse. Also, a set of leading drone future locations may form a leading drone path for the leading drone to traverse. The base station's future location may be anticipated from a prediction or a predetermination. The leading drone, navigating along the leading drone path, may collect sensor data and/or perform tasks. The leading drone may interact with sensor drones while traversing the leading drone path. Accordingly, the leading drone may move ahead of the base station in motion, as opposed to following or remaining with the base station. | Haofeng Tu (Shanghai, CN) | Pinnacle Vista, Llc (Upland, CA) | 2017-05-05 | 2019-06-11 | G05D1/00, B64C39/02, H04W64/00, G08C17/02, B64D3/00, H04W24/02, B63G8/00, H04W84/00 | 15/588302 |
| 16 | 10003397 | Dynamic wireless aerial mesh network | Embodiments include a dynamic wireless aerial mesh network having aerial nodes that provides real-time persistent wide area communications service to provide communications in response to an incident. Typically, the service area is a wide area that is physically inaccessible via ground transportation. In addition, embodiments include the formation of a decentralized mesh supernetwork comprising two or more dynamic wireless aerial mesh networks where each dynamic wireless aerial mesh network is owned by a different agency (e.g., a secure community) . A member of a first dynamic wireless aerial mesh network may send a request to a member of a second dynamic wireless aerial mesh network for the first dynamic wireless aerial mesh network to join the second dynamic wireless aerial mesh network to form a mesh supernetwork, and receive an acceptance from the member of the second dynamic wireless aerial mesh network. | Joseph R. Mazzarella (Tolland, CT), Michael S. Wengrovitz (Concord, MA) | Mutualink, Inc. (Wallingford, CT) | 2017-05-12 | 2018-06-19 | H04B7/185, H04W72/04, B64C39/02, H04W84/18, B64D47/08, H04L29/12 | 15/594066 |
| 17 | 9867016 | System and method for locating a mobile phone with moveable wireless beacons | The invention addresses the problem of efficiently locating a target device such as a mobile phone, by directing the movement of moveable wireless beacons along a search pattern, using the target device as a moveable wireless beacon detection device. Preferably, the target device is equipped with a WiFi and/or Bluetooth radio and the moveable wireless beacons are WiFi-equipped and/or Bluetooth-equipped mobile phones in possession of first responders. To locate a target device, the WiFi and/or Bluetooth radios in the moveable wireless beacons are activated such that they transmit a unique identifier. As moveable wireless beacons report their locations and as the target device reports updated beacon detection information, movement directions are determined and sent to the moveable wireless beacons to coordinate an efficient search of the target device. Once at least one moveable wireless beacon is detected by the target mobile phone, updated movement directions are provided to the moveable wireless beacon to direct them toward the target device. | Bryan D. Sears (Longmont, CO) | West Corporation (Omaha, NE) | 2014-11-17 | 2018-01-09 | H04M11/04, H04W4/02, H04W40/24, H04W64/00 | 14/543401 |
| 18 | 9767699 | System for and method of detecting drones | An apparatus and method can provide a warning of a drone or unmanned aerial vehicle in the vicinity of an airport. The apparatus can include at least one antenna directionally disposed at an along the approach or departure path and a detector configured to provide a warning of a presence of sense an unmanned aerial or drone. The warning can be provided in response to a radio frequency signal received by the at least one of the antenna being in a frequency band associated with a transmission frequency for the unmanned aerial vehicle or drone or in a frequency band associated with interaction from receive circuitry of the unmanned aerial vehicle or drone. | John W. Borghese (Cedar Rapids, IA), Arlen E. Breiholz (Cedar Rapids, IA) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, IA) | 2015-05-14 | 2017-09-19 | G01C21/00, H04W4/02, G08G5/02, G08G5/00 | 14/712500 |
| 19 | 9654200 | System and method for dynamic wireless aerial mesh network | Embodiments include a dynamic wireless aerial mesh network having aerial nodes that provides real-time persistent wide area communications service to provide communications in response to an incident. Typically, the area services is a wide area that is physically inaccessible via ground transportation. In addition, embodiments include the formation of a decentralized mesh supernetwork comprising two or more dynamic wireless aerial mesh networks where each dynamic wireless aerial mesh network is owned by a different agency (e.g., a secure community) . A member of a first dynamic wireless aerial mesh network may send a request to a member of a second dynamic wireless aerial mesh network for the first dynamic wireless aerial mesh network to join the second dynamic wireless aerial mesh network to form a mesh supernetwork, and receive an acceptance from the member of the second dynamic wireless aerial mesh network. | Joseph R. Mazzarella (Tolland, CT), Michael S. Wengrovitz (Concord, MA) | Mutualink, Inc. (Wallingford, CT) | 2014-10-24 | 2017-05-16 | G01C23/00, G05D1/00, G05D3/00, G06F7/00, G06F17/00, H04B7/185, H04L29/06, H04W4/22, H04W84/18, H04W84/08 | 14/523576 |
| 20 | 9533760 | Image monitoring and display from unmanned vehicle | This invention relates to capturing and displaying images and/or data received from a manned, or, more typically, an unmanned aerial drone. More particularly, the invention relates to a system of sensors mounted on an aerial drone and display systems in addition to transmission and reception components associated with the sensors and display systems respectively whereby images and/or data captured by the sensors can be transmitted to, received by, and viewed on single and multiple monitor display systems. | David Wagreich (Los Angeles, CA) | Crane-Cohasset Holdings, Llc (Los Angeles, CA) | 2016-03-08 | 2017-01-03 | H04N7/18, H04N5/232, H04N5/247, G06K9/00, B64C39/02, B64D47/08 | 15/064533 |
| 21 | 9124909 | Metadata for compressed video streams | Systems and methods are provided for adding or extracting metadata for video streams. The system receives a video stream compressed according to a video encoding standard, and generates a packet for transmission across a packet-switched network. The system inserts at least one compressed segment of the video stream into a payload of the packet. The system also receives metadata that describes content within the video stream and is not compressed according to the standard, inserts the metadata into the packet without compressing the metadata according to the standard, and transmits the packet across the packet-switched network to a target device. | Raymond W. Willis (Seatlle, WA), Jeffrey A Heim (Newcastle, WA) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, IL) | 2015-02-04 | 2015-09-01 | H04N7/173, H04N21/84, H04N21/85, H04N21/236, H04N21/643, H04N21/235 | 14/614023 |
| 22 | 8973075 | Metadata for compressed video streams | Systems and methods are provided for adding or extracting metadata for video streams. The system receives a video stream compressed according to a video encoding standard, and generates a packet for transmission across a packet-switched network. The system inserts at least one compressed segment of the video stream into a payload of the packet. The system also receives metadata that describes content within the video stream and is not compressed according to the standard, inserts the metadata into the packet without compressing the metadata according to the standard, and transmits the packet across the packet-switched network to a target device. | Raymond W. Willis (Seattle, WA), Jeffrey A Heim (Newcastle, WA) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, IL) | 2013-09-04 | 2015-03-03 | H04N7/173 | 14/018253 |
| 23 | 7532119 | Multi-tiered network for gathering detected condition information | A multi-tiered network for gathering detected condition information includes a first tier having first tier nodes and a second tier having a second tier node. The second tier node is operable to receive detected condition information from at least one of the first tier nodes in a substantially autonomous manner. In addition, the second tier node is operable to at least one of store, process, and transmit the detected condition information. The network also includes a third tier having a third tier node configured to receive the detected condition information and to at least one of store and process the detected condition information. | Alexandre M. Bratkovski (Mountain View, CA), Zhiyong Li (Palo Alto, CA), Geoffrey Lyon (Menlo Park, CA), Philip Kuekes (Menlo Park, CA), Shih Yuang Wang (Palo Alto, CA), R. Stanley Williams (Portola Valley, CA) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, TX) | 2005-11-08 | 2009-05-12 | G08B13/14 | 11/269237 |
