US Patent Issued to Skydio on Sept. 8 for "Ground control point assignment and determination system" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,960, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Ground control point assignment and determination system" was invented by Bernard J. Michini (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.), Brett Michael Bethke (Millbrae, Calif.) and Fabien Blanc-Paques (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for ground control point assignment and determination. One of the methods includes receiving information describing a flight plan for the UAV to implement, the flight plan identifying one or more waypoints associated with geographic locations ...