US Patent Issued to Skydio on July 28 for "Road network optimization based on vehicle telematics information" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,127, issued on July 28, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Road network optimization based on vehicle telematics information" was invented by Fabien Blanc-Paques (San Franciso, Calif.), Mark Christian (San Francisco) and Donald Curry Weigel (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for determining asset efficiency. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) may be used to obtain aerial images of locations, property or structures. The aerial images may be geo-rectified, and a ortho-mosaic, digital surface model, or a point cloud m...