ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,596, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Detection and signaling of conditions of an unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Joseph A. Enke (Campbell, Calif.), Miles Hansen (Redwood City, Calif.) and Mehran Ferdowsi (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings provide a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, including a processor-executable routines that, when executed by a processor, facilitate a performance of operations. The operations include detecting a condition using one or more sensors of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle includes motors. The operations inc...