ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,639, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Method and system for routing/orchestration/management of aerial vehicles or data on a network" was invented by Paul Carver (Somerset, N.J.), Abhigyan Sharma Abhigyan (Basking Ridge, N.J.), John Craig (Ocean Township, N.J.), Andrew Kell (Marietta, Ga.), James Pratt (Round Rock, Texas), David Plunkett Jr. (Kennesaw, Ga.), James Carlton Bedingfield Sr. (Gainesville, Ga.), Michael Albrecht (Dallas), Michael L. Hunter (Trenton, N.J.) and Virginia S. Ng (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for ex...