ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,074, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Motion-based calibration of an aerial device" was invented by Anh Tung Dang (Redwood City, Calif.), Peter Benjamin Henry (San Francisco), Hayk Martirosyan (San Francisco), Kristen Marie Holtz (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Dominic William Pattison (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A calibration of an unmanned aerial vehicle is performed without the use of a magnetometer. The unmanned aerial vehicle generates a first acceleration vector in a navigation frame of reference and a second acceleration vector in a GPS frame of reference. The unmanned aerial ...