US Patent Issued to Skydio on Feb. 17 for "Motor control optimizations for unmanned aerial vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,563, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Motor control optimizations for unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Joseph A. Enke (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: communicating signals and transmitting the signals. Communicating the signals from an operation system to a motor controller of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Transmitting the signals from the motor controller to motors of the UAV. Applying a smoothing filter to the signals transmitted from the motor controller to the motors of the UAV to generate filtered signals. Controlling the motors with the filte...