ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,413, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle sensor activation and correlation system" was invented by Hui Li (San Francisco), John Bressler (San Francisco), Volkan Gurel (San Francisco) and Bernard J. Michini (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) logs first UAV information at a first frequency. The UAV triggers a camera associated with the UAV to capture an image. In response to triggering the camera to capture the image, the UAV logs second UAV information at a second frequency that is higher than the first frequency. A device that is sepa...