US Patent Issued to Skydio on Nov. 3 for "Flying digital assistant with passive RF subject detection and tracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,934, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Flying digital assistant with passive RF subject detection and tracking" was invented by Abraham Galton Bachrach (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Adam Parker Bry (Redwood City, Calif.) and Matthew Joseph Donahoe (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for tracking a subject in a physical environment using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) guided by device-free radio frequency (RF) localization. Wireless transmitters emit RF signals through the environment, and wireless monitors detect changes in the RF signals caused by interf...