ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,170, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to DroneUp LLC (Virginia Beach, Va.).

"Methods and apparatus for automatic drone resupply of a product to an individual based on GPS location, without human intervention" was invented by John Vernon (Virginia Beach, Va.) and Oleksii Naboichenko (Chesapeake, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method includes receiving, at a processor, from a transceiver and without human intervention, location data associated with a target. The processor receives, from the transceiver, product data for a resupply request referencing the target, the product data including at least one of a ...