ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,296, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ABZERO SRL (Pisa, Italy).
"Device and method for autonomous management of a drone" was invented by Giuseppe Roberto Tortora (Pisa, Italy), Donatello Amicone (Campobasso, Italy) and Andrea Cannas (Lotzorai, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent device for autonomous navigation of a drone comprising a control unit arranged to communicate with a remote-control station by a wireless connection, acquire a mission route Gamma that the drone is arranged to follow to reach a desired destination, the mission route Gamma being defined by means of coordinates xm(t), ym(t), zm(t) with respect...