MUMBAI, India, Sept. 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202421017459 A) filed by Ideaforge Technology Limited, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, on March 11, 2024, for 'a system for planning a flight path for surveying a region of interest.'

Inventor(s) include Narayanan, Lakshmi; Pandurangi, Pradeep Vinay; and Mehta, Ankit.

The application for the patent was published on Sept. 12, under issue no. 37/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system (100) for planning a flight path for a survey of a ROI comprises at least one UAV (102). a flight control unit (104) and a flight planning unit (106). Flight planning unit (106) creates a main flight path (302) covering the ROI, identifies an area of interest based on trigger data within the ROI, creates a boundary (304) around the identified area of interest, and creates an additional flight path (306), which is contiguous to the main flight path (302), for the identified area of interest. The trigger data may be captured during the main flight path using sensors mounted on the UAV and the flight path planned/ generated in real-time during the flight, or may be fed by user. The main flight path (302) and the additional flight path (306) are any of a back-and-forth linear paths or spiral path flight paths."

Disclaimer: Curated by HT Syndication.