US Patent Issued to Skydio on July 28 for "Frequency hopping scheme for improved operation in congested environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,326, issued on July 28, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Frequency hopping scheme for improved operation in congested environments" was invented by Eyal Hochdorf (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Abraham Galton Bachrach (Emerald Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed herein for a method of operating a UAV as an access point for communication with one or more ground controllers and/or one or more other UAVs. In an implementation, a UAV establishes a connection, including an uplink and downlink, between the UAV and a ground controller such that the UAV is an access point with respect to the ground c...