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New Patent In This Week – January 06

Multi-part navigation process by an unmanned aerial vehicle for navigating to a medical situatiion
US 8,930,044

Inventors: Peeters; Eric (Mountain View, CA), Teller; Eric (Palo Alto, CA), Patrick; William Graham (San Francisco, CA)
Applicant: Name City State Country Type
Google Inc. Mountain View CA US
Assignee: Google Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
Family ID: 1000000309521
Appl. No.: 13/730,317
Filed: December 28, 2012
Abstract
Embodiments described herein may relate to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigating to a medical situation in order to provide medical support. An illustrative method involves a UAV (a) determining an approximate target location associated with a medical situation, (b) using a first navigation process to navigate the UAV to the approximate target location, where the first navigation process generates flight-control signals based on the approximate target location, (c) making a determination that the UAV is located at the approximate target location, and (d) in response to the determination that the UAV is located at the approximate target location, using a second navigation process to navigate the UAV to the medical situation, wherein the second navigation process generates flight-control signals based on real-time localization of the medical situation.