US Patent Issued to Zipline International on Oct. 27 for "Dynamic flight path variation for unmanned aerial vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,900, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Zipline International Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Dynamic flight path variation for unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Bijal S. Mehta (San Francisco), Sarah Y. Trisorus (San Mateo, Calif.) and Tyler P. McNish (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight plan of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may be updated based on an order update corresponding to an order being delivered by the UAV. A determination may be made that the initial flight plan should be updated to fulfill the order including the order update. The initial flight plan may be updated based on the order u...