US Patent Issued to AURA Network Systems on June 10 for "Systems and methods for implementing an air traffic control voice relay for unmanned aircraft systems over an aviation network" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,479, issued on June 10, was assigned to AURA Network Systems Inc. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for implementing an air traffic control voice relay for unmanned aircraft systems over an aviation network" was invented by Tamara Lynne Casey (Annapolis, Md.), Michael Robert Gagne (Monrovia, Md.) and Michael Ligouri Moher (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for implementing air traffic control (ATC) voice communications over a digital aviation network, which allows one or more pilots on the ground to communicate with ATC controllers while piloting a UAS transiting the airspace of a particu...