US Patent Issued to Skydio on April 21 for "Objective-based control of an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,010, issued on April 21, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Objective-based control of an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Jack Louis Zhu (San Mateo, Calif.), Hayk Martirosyan (San Francisco), Abraham Bachrach (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Matthew Donahoe (Redwood City, Calif.), Patrick Lowe (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kristen Marie Holtz (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Adam Bry (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for controlling an autonomous vehicle (AV) using objective-based inputs. The underlying functionality of an autonomous navigation system can be is exposed via an app...