US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 29 for "Real-time unmanned aerial vehicle connectivity" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,197, issued on July 29, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Real-time unmanned aerial vehicle connectivity" was invented by Abhigyan Sharma Abhigyan (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Mingsheng Yin (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Xuan Tuyen Tran (Piscataway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a drone service retrieving network state information describing a network state of at least a portion of a communication network, determining an impact of the network state on operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), determining operational information for the UAV, and providing...