US Patent Issued to Skydio on Sept. 8 for "Virtual wall mapping for aerial vehicle navigation" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,497, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Virtual wall mapping for aerial vehicle navigation" was invented by Andreas Jager (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle ("UAV"), the UAV includes an electronic speed controller and a flight controller. The electric speed controller is interfaced with thrust motors of the UAV. The flight controller configured to: determine a geographic location and a velocity of the UAV, the velocity includes a first component and a second component. The flight controller is configured to determine a distance between the geographic location of the UAV...