ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,650, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Facilitation of smart communications hub to support unmanned aircraft for 5G or other next generation network" was invented by Kaveri Raman (Matawan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) can be supported by a smart communications hub. Network slices can be utilized to provide services to a UAS that has provided its remote identification number to a network node. After the UAS has been authenticated, by an authentication network slice, based on policies hosted at a service capabilities exposure function (SCEF), the UAS c...