ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,731, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Roof scan using unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Peter Henry (San Francisco), Jack Zhu (San Mateo, Calif.), Brian Richman (San Francisco), Harrison Zheng (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hayk Martirosyan (San Francisco), Matthew Donahoe (Redwood City, Calif.), Abraham Galton Bachrach (Emerald Hills, Calif.) and Adam Bry (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems for roof scan using an unmanned aerial vehicle. For example, some methods include capturing, using an unmanned aerial vehicle, an overview image of a roof of a building ...