US Patent Issued to Skydio on Oct. 14 for "Fitness and sports applications for an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,186, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Fitness and sports applications for an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Abraham Galton Bachrach (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Adam Parker Bry (Redwood City, Calif.), Matthew Joseph Donahoe (Redwood City, Calif.), Hayk Martirosyan (San Francisco) and Tom Moss (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sports and fitness applications for an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are described. In an example embodiment, a UAV can be configured to track a human subject using perception inputs from one or more onboard sensors. The perception i...