ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,505, issued on July 15.
"Aerial drone navigation system with lidar mapping" was invented by William Hart (Aptos, Calif.), Edmond A. DeFrank (Northridge, Calif.), Antonio DeFrank (Northridge, Canada), Nicolas DeFrank (Northridge, Calif.) and Allen Mark Jones (Imperial Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments disclose a method including providing an aerial drone coupled wirelessly to a social distancing application on a user digital device, wherein the drone is coupled to solar cell panels for recharging its batteries, providing a strobe light coupled to the drone for signaling an S.O.S. automatically in emergency s...