US Patent Issued to Skydio on Aug. 12 for "Unmanned aerial vehicle beyond visual line of sight control" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,537, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle beyond visual line of sight control" was invented by Bernard J. Michini (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.), Logan Kaminski (San Francisco) and Edward Dale Steakley (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for unmanned aerial vehicle beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flight operations. In an embodiment, a flight planning system of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can identify handoff zones along a UAV flight corridor for transferring control of t...