ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,784, issued on June 17, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Image space motion planning of an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Ryan David Kennedy (San Francisco), Peter Benjamin Henry (San Francisco), Hayk Martirosyan (San Francisco), Jack Louis Zhu (San Mateo, 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: "An autonomous vehicle that is equipped with image capture devices can use information gathered from the image capture devices to plan a future three-dimensional (3D) trajectory through a physical environment. To this end, a techniqu...