US Patent Issued to Skydio on Dec. 23 for "Unmanned aerial vehicle electromagnetic avoidance and utilization system" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,454, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle electromagnetic avoidance and utilization system" was invented by Fabien Blanc-Paques (San Franciso, Calif.), Bernard J. Michini (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.) and Mark Patrick Bauer (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatus, for an unmanned aerial vehicle electromagnetic avoidance and utilization system. One of the methods includes obtaining a flight package indicating a flight pattern associated with inspecting a structure, the flight pattern causing the UAV to remain at a standoff distance from the structur...