ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,500, issued on April 15, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Control point identification 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: "Aerial images captured by a first device are received. A landmark is identified in an aerial image of the aerial images. A determination is made, based on data in a data store, that the landmark is identified as a control point. Precise location information is associated with the control point in the data store. The precise location information indicates a location of a second d...