ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,675, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Unmanned aerial vehicle remote flight planning system" was invented by Eric David Johnson (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Alan Jay Poole (San Francisco), Donald Curry Weigel (Los Altos, Calif.), Mark Patrick Bauer (San Francisco), Volkan Gurel (San Francisco), Jesse Daniel Kallman (San Francisco) and Adam Sax (San Francisco).
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 (UAV) flight planning. One of the methods includes receiving a location for an aerial survey t...