ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,303, issued on April 21, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Synchronized pipeline flight controller" was invented by Joseph Anthony Enke (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pipeline in a controller may be configured to interface between sensors and actuators. The pipeline may elements such as drivers, filters, a combine, estimators, controllers, a mixer, and actuator controllers. The drivers may receive sensor data and pre-process the received sensor data. The filters may filter the pre-processed sensor data to generate filtered sensor data. The combine may package the filtered sensor data to generate p...