US Patent Issued to Skydio on Dec. 9 for "Environment illumination for autonomous aerial vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,022, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Environment illumination for autonomous aerial vehicles" was invented by Adam Parker Bry (Redwood City, Calif.), Abraham Galton Bachrach (San Francisco), Kevin Patrick Smith O'Leary (San Francisco), Asher Mendel Robbins-Rothman (Redwood City, Calif.), Zachary Albert West (Mountain View, Calif.), Daniel Thomas Adams (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher Brian Grasberger (Burlingame, Calif.), Enyu Luo (Redwood City, Calif.) and Benjamin Scott Thompson (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous aerial vehicle technology and, more specifically, environm...