US Patent Issued to Skydio on Sept. 15 for "Landing and alignment of an unmanned aerial vehicle with a base station" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,210, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Landing and alignment of an unmanned aerial vehicle with a base station" was invented by Patrick Allen Lowe (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher C. Berthelet (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Maximilian Joseph Halper Krogius (San Mateo, Calif.), Divyanshu Pachisia (San Francisco), Philipp Foehn (Foster City, Calif.), Benjamin Scott Thompson (San Carlos, Calif.), Yee Shan Woo (Campbell, Calif.), Joseph Tankeh (Fremont, Calif.) and Andrew Xu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a reconfigurable landing platform i...