US Patent Issued to Skydio on July 7 for "Automated unmanned aerial vehicle dock verification and landing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,117, issued on July 7, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Automated unmanned aerial vehicle dock verification and landing" was invented by Shreetej Varakantam Reddy (San Mateo, Calif.), Davide Falanga (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Maximilian Joseph Halper Krogius (San Mateo, Calif.) and Eric Minor (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous return to dock and docking procedures includes a dock and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The dock includes a first fiducial and second fiducial. The UAV includes a camera, one or more processors, and one or more memories. The one or more processors configured to execute in...