ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,802, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Unmanned aerial vehicle area surveying" was invented by Patrick Michael Bouffard (Albany, Calif.) and Bernard J. Michini (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for an unmanned aerial vehicle aerial survey. One of the methods includes receiving information specifying a location to be inspected by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the inspection including the UAV capturing images of the location. Information describing a boundary of the location to be inspected is...