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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2021
Skydio, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Brian Kubisiak, San Mateo, CA (US);
Joseph Anthony Enke, San Carlos, CA (US);
Ryan Hornung, Redwood City, CA (US);
Stepan Moskovchenko, Belmont, CA (US);
Skydio, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are systems and methods using a security key for an unmanned aerial vehicle. For example, some methods include during flight of an unmanned aerial vehicle, encrypting, using a public key stored by the unmanned aerial vehicle, a symmetric key that is used to encrypt media data captured using one or more sensors of the unmanned aerial vehicle to obtain encrypted media data; landing the unmanned aerial vehicle; connecting a key device to the unmanned aerial vehicle via a serial port connector of the key device and a serial port connector of the unmanned aerial vehicle; while the key device is connected to the unmanned aerial vehicle, decrypting, using a private key stored on the key device, the encrypted symmetric key, which in turn is used to decrypt a portion of the encrypted media data to obtain decrypted media data; and transmitting a portion of the decrypted media data.