US Patent Issued to Skydio on July 14 for "Unmanned aerial vehicles including removable gimbal modules" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,571, issued on July 14, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Unmanned aerial vehicles including removable gimbal modules" was invented by Alexander David Savello (San Francisco), Christopher Michael Schwab (Woodside, Calif.), Yevgeniy Andreyevich Kozlenko (New Fairfield, Conn.) and Patrick Allen Lowe (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that includes a chassis and a gimbal module. The gimbal module includes at least one optical component that facilitates image capture, and is configured for removable connection to the chassis to facilitate repeated connection and disconnectio...