ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,501, issued on April 15, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Control point identification and reuse system" was invented by Bernard J. Michini (San Francisco), Brett Michael Bethke (Millbrae, Calif.) and Hui Li (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Landmarks are identified based on images of an area. A path is generated for a vehicle to traverse the area that includes the landmarks. Precise locations information indicative of locations of the vehicle and captured by a high accuracy position receiver of the vehicle while the vehicle traverses the path are received from the vehicle. At least some of the precise loc...