ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,288, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"System and method for dynamically varying retry rates in UAV communications" was invented by Eyal Hochdorf (Palo Alto, Calif.), Qian Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Tejaswy Hari (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for enhancing vehicle range in a unmanned aircraft system is disclosed herein. An implementation of the method includes establishing a wireless communication channel between an unmanned aircraft and an end point and transmitting data from the unmanned aircraft to the end point over the wireless communication channel. Th...