US Patent Issued to Skydio on July 8 for "Security key for unmanned aerial vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,335, issued on July 8, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Security key for unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Brian Kubisiak (San Mateo, Calif.), Joseph Anthony Enke (San Carlos, Calif.), Ryan Hornung (Redwood City, Calif.) and Stepan Moskovchenko (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods using a security key for an unmanned aerial vehicle. For example, some methods include during flight of an unmanned aerial vehicle, encrypting, using a public key stored by the unmanned aerial vehicle, a symmetric key that is used to encrypt media data captured using one or more sens...