US Patent Issued to Skydio on Aug. 5 for "Method of landing an unmanned aerial vehicle on a freestanding dock including a reconfigurable landing surface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,002, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Method of landing an unmanned aerial vehicle on a freestanding dock including a reconfigurable landing surface" was invented by Yevgeniy Kozlenko (Mountain View, Calif.), Jack Zhu (San Mateo, Calif.), Gareth Cross (San Carlos, Calif.), Teodor Tomic (Redwood City, Calif.), Adam Bry (Redwood City, Calif.) and Abraham Galton Bachrach (Emerald Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems for automated docking of an unmanned aerial vehicle. For example, some systems include a landing surface configured to hold an unmanned aerial vehicle; a...