ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,918, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Unmanned aerial image capture platform" was invented by Hayk Martirosyan (San Francisco), Adam Bry (Redwood City, Calif.), Matthew Donahoe (Redwood City, Calif.), Abraham Bachrach (Emerald Hills, Calif.) and Justin Michael Sadowski (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to autonomously navigate a physical environment while capturing images of the physical environment. In some embodiments, the motion of the UAV and a subject in the physical environment may be estimate...