Posts Tagged: "drones"

Today’s Companies We Follow profile of Google starts with a look at some intriguingly diverse technologies protected by patents recently issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. One patent protects a navigational system for directing medical drones to a situation in response to a call for emergency medical services. Another patent protects an innovative mobile electronic device that can provide tactile feedback to a user in response to search queries. We also focus on a couple of patents that protect software tools supporting online collaborative among groups of people.

Unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, have evolved rapidly in recent years, especially since making the leap from military technology to consumer gadgetry. Recently, it’s been suggested that this technology could be useful for a myriad of business opportunities, from food delivery to real estate photography to filming movies. However, the technology has been evolving more quickly than current federal airspace guidelines on the subject, which has proved to be an obstacle blocking the development of drones for commercial and other purposes. Today, we take a look at current drone technologies.