US Patent Issued to Skydio on March 18 for "Distributed unmanned aerial vehicle architecture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,827, issued on March 18, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Distributed unmanned aerial vehicle architecture" was invented by Jonathan Downey (San Francisco), Bernard J. Michini (San Francisco) and Brian Richman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system includes one or more processors and one or more computer storage media storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations that include obtaining flight information of the UAV; determining one or more modifications based on the flight information; and t...