US Patent Issued to Skydio on July 22 for "Object tracking by an unmanned aerial vehicle using visual sensors" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,670, issued on July 22, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Object tracking by an unmanned aerial vehicle using visual sensors" was invented by Saumitro Dasgupta (Redwood City, Calif.), Hayk Martirosyan (San Francisco), Hema Koppula (Palo Alto, Calif.), Alex Kendall (Cambridge, Great Britain), Austin Stone (San Francisco), Matthew Donahoe (Redwood City, Calif.), Abraham Galton Bachrach (Emerald Hills, Calif.) and Adam Parker Bry (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for tracking objects in a physical environment using visual sensors onboard an autonomous unmanned aerial v...