ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,947, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dedrone Holdings Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, apparatuses, and devices for identifying, tracking, and managing unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Rene Seeber (Kassel, Germany), Ingo Seebach (Kassel, Germany), Henning Meyer (Kassel, Germany), Markus Schoeler (Kassel, Germany), Kai Baumgart (Kassel, Germany), Christian Scheibe (Kassel, Germany) and David Prantl (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus for identifying and tracking UAVs including a plurality of sensors operatively connected over a network to a configuration of software ...