ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,327, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Aerial vehicle smart landing" was invented by Kristen Marie Holtz (Redwood City, Calif.), Hayk Martirosyan (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Jack Louis Zhu (Redwood City, Calif.), Adam Parker Bry (Redwood City, Calif.), Matthew Joseph Donahoe (Redwood City, Calif.), Abraham Galton Bachrach (San Francisco), Peter Benjamin Henry (San Francisco) and Ryan David Kennedy (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is introduced for autonomous landing by an aerial vehicle. In some embodiments, the introduced technique includes processing a sensor data such as ima...