US Patent Issued to DISH Network on June 10 for "Systems and methods for drones as a service" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,207, issued on June 10, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for drones as a service" was invented by Prakash Subramanian (Littleton, Colo.) and Nicholas Newell (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is described for implementing drones as a service. As an example, a drone may receive instructions from one or more network elements, coordinate operations with the one or more network elements, and perform at least one task associated with the instructions. The drone may deliver a container to a first location and perform object recognition to validate an object of a subscriber...