US Patent Issued to Skydio on Oct. 28 for "Unmanned aerial vehicle airspace reservation and allocation system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,383, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle airspace reservation and allocation system" was invented by Eric David Johnson (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Jesse Daniel Kallman (San Francisco) 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 reserving airspace for UAV operations. In some implementations, a flight planning system can reserve and allocate airspace for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations. For example, a UAV operator device can submit a flight plan to th...