ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,199, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Position-based control of unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Ruihui Di (Castro Valley, Calif.), Ashwani Arya (Encinitas, Calif.), Mehran Ferdowsi (Foster City, Calif.) and Nirmit Kamalbhai Shah (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The position of a UAV within a three-dimensional space is changed based on a change in position of a controller of the UAV. First and second sensor data are produced using sensors of the controller to maintain stable altitude output for the UAV. The first sensor data indicates a geolocation of the controller, and th...