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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2024
Uipco, Llc, San Antonio, TX (US);
Brian Howard Katz, San Antonio, TX (US);
Surender Kumar, Palatine, IL (US);
Jeffrey Thomas Cavanaugh, Sun City, AZ (US);
Daniel Diaz, San Antonio, TX (US);
Jennifer Holly Nance, San Antonio, TX (US);
Robert Christian Law, Plano, TX (US);
United Services Automobile Association (USAA), San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
A system can generate a flight path to ensure a drone is visible to at least one observer at all times in order to meet flight regulations or to provide additional monitoring of the drone in-flight. Locations of one or more observers are retrieved from devices associated with the observers. Based on these observer locations, a flight routing system can automatically generate optimal flight paths that meet the line of sight constraints as well as possibly other criteria (such as minimal distance and/or minimal flight time). In scenarios where there are no flight paths that meet the line of sight constraints, the flight routing system can find optimal flight paths with new target observing locations. These target observing locations are then transmitted to the observers with the expectation that the observers will move to those locations.