ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,866, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for switching of video streams provided to a ground station from various sources onboard an unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Stepan Moskovchenko (Belmont, Calif.) and Jerry Feng (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and software for operating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having one or more camera sensors. A method includes capturing a video stream using the camera sensor(s) of the UAV. The method includes determining a capability of a ground station communicably coupled to the UAV to annotate the v...