EXTENDED DURATION AUTONOMOUS CRAFT

Patent №

US 10,399,400

Granted

2019-09-03

Filed 2017

Owner

THE BOEING COMPANY

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15667497

Autonomous craft capable of extended duration operations as lighter-than-air craft, having the ability to alight on the surface of a body of water and generate hydrogen gas for lift via electrolysis using power derived from a photovoltaic system, as well as methods of launching an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having a deployable envelope from a surface of a body of water.

PlanningB60F 5/02B63B 35/00B63G 8/001B63G 8/22B64B 1/58B64B 1/68B64U 10/13B64U 50/32+27 more

AI classification

Planning0.66
Evolutionary computation0.00
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
AI hardware0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

THE BOEING COMPANY

assignment · 431750915

Assignors

HARTSHORN, SCOTT, HUMFELD, KEITH DANIEL

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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