ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,976, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method for wireless power transmission" was invented by Christian Fortunato (Gilbert, Ariz.), Ivan Ermanoski (Tempe, Ariz.) and Spring Berman (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for wireless power transmission is disclosed, and includes a plurality of UAVs, each having a transfer medium reservoir, an onboard power conversion unit, a communication module, a navigation module, a power delivery interface, and at least one sensor. Each UAV is configured to interface with a transfer...