US Patent Issued on July 8 for "Cooperative unmanned autonomous aerial vehicles for power grid inspection and management" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,222, issued on July 8.

"Cooperative unmanned autonomous aerial vehicles for power grid inspection and management" was invented by Justin Starr (Baden, Pa.), Ashish Basuray (Petaluma, Calif.) and Roman Kazantsev (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment provides unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for infrastructure surveillance and monitoring. One example includes monitoring power grid components such as high voltage power lines. The UAVs may coordinate, for example using swarm behavior, and be controlled via a platform system. Other embodiments are described and claimed."

The patent was filed on Dec. 7, 2023, under A...