US 12,340,706 B2
Drone-based water measurement system
Thomas Robert Swanson, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Harrison Pham, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to TidalX AI Inc., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by TidalX AI Inc, San Ramon, CA (US)
Filed on May 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/202,054.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/415,567, filed on Oct. 12, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0127701 A1, Apr. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G08G 5/56 (2025.01); B64U 10/00 (2023.01); B64U 101/35 (2023.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 5/56 (2025.01) [B64U 10/00 (2023.01); G01C 21/20 (2013.01); B64U 2101/35 (2023.01); B64U 2201/20 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer implemented method, comprising:
receiving, by a drone management system that controls a drone that is configured to collect water samples, data from a simulator that generates simulation data associated with a body of water;
receiving, by the drone management system, an indication that the drone is available to collect one or more water samples from the body of water;
determining, by the drone management system and based on the data from the simulator, one or more locations associated with the body of water at which the drone is to collect one or more respective water samples; and
transmitting, by the drone management system, the one or more locations associated with the body of water to the drone.