ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,938, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Aerial vehicle path determination" was invented by Jack Louis Zhu (San Mateo, Calif.), Margaret Bai Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Maximilian Joseph Halper Krogius (San Mateo, Calif.), Kristen Marie Holtz (Menlo Park, Calif.), Shreetej Varakantam Reddy (San Mateo, Calif.), Hayk Martirosyan (San Francisco) and Peter Benjamin Henry (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer stores dense maps generated by one or more aerial vehicles. The computer generates a global graph based on the dense maps and a sparse map. The computer stores a representation of one...