ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,779, issued on March 18, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Unmanned aerial vehicle privacy controls" was invented by Dana Livonia Contreras (San Francisco), Lucas Palage Doyle (San Francisco), Justin Eugene Kuehn (San Francisco), Volkan Gurel (San Francisco), Eric David Johnson (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Edward Dale Steakley (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in this specification are methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on non-transitory computer storage media for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight operation and privacy controls. Based on geofence types, and ...