US Patent Issued to Snap on July 1 for "Fully autonomous drone flights" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,409, issued on July 1, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Fully autonomous drone flights" was invented by Mathias Andreas Hintermann (Playa Vista, Calif.), Justin Huang (Los Angeles) and Russell Douglas Patton (Playa Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer readable medium and methods for fully autonomous drone flight are disclosed. Example methods include taking off, navigating in accordance with a flight plan, and navigating the autonomous drone to land. The autonomous drone performs flight plans with only an initial command for the autonomous drone to fly and, in some examples, an indication of...