ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,411, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apsara Energy LLC (New York).

"Drone deployable modular system for remote solar energy generation" was invented by Andrew DeLollis (Andover, Mass.), Robert Mitchell Jones (Avon, Mass.), Borys Shtangeyev (Needham, Mass.), Ben Pedtke (Leominster, Mass.) and Ravi Ashok Jeyaratnam (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drone deployable modular system for remote solar energy generation utilizes remote-controlled multi-rotor drones configured to deliver and maintain modular heliostat units for assembly into heliostat fields in remote locations. The drone deployable modular heliostat unit may includ...