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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2022
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
James Carthew, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Nelson Alexander Brock, Sebastopol, CA (US);
Jeffrey Yizhou Hu, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle integrated unmanned aerial system is disclosed. The system may include a vehicle and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The vehicle may include a vehicle processor configured to obtain a vehicle telemetry information from a vehicle telemetry unit and a user input from a vehicle user. Further, the vehicle may include a transmitter that may be configured to transmit the vehicle telemetry information and the user input to the UAV. The UAV may include a UAV receiver configured to receive the vehicle telemetry information and the user input. Further, the UAV may include a UAV processor that may be configured to obtain the vehicle telemetry information and the vehicle user from the UAV receiver and predict a vehicle movement based on the vehicle telemetry information. The UAV processor may be further configured to maneuver the UAV based on the predicted vehicle movement and the user input.