US Patent Issued to Airtonomy on July 1 for "Management platform for autonomous drone operations" (North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,092, issued on July 1, was assigned to Airtonomy Inc. (Grand Forks, N.D.).

"Management platform for autonomous drone operations" was invented by Joshua Michael Riedy (Grand Forks, N.D.) and Nicholas Anthony Zaccardi (Grand Forks, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for executing a mission by an autonomous device to inspect an asset. One method includes an operation for obtaining a workflow. The workflow includes operations to be executed during a mission to be performed by a robot and a destination for sending data resulting from the mission. The method further includes an operatio...