US Patent Issued to DX TECH on June 17 for "Drone system for powerline inspection using radio frequency scanning techniques" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,284, issued on June 17, was assigned to DX TECH PTY LTD (Prahran, Australia).

"Drone system for powerline inspection using radio frequency scanning techniques" was invented by Khoi Loon Wong (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for housing a drone for locating a source in an electrical structure includes a plurality of drones capable of hovering in positions to form a virtual enclosure around an electrical structure and a server communicably coupled to the drones. The virtual enclosure is divided into a plurality of cells. The drone is configured to measure a plurality of time difference of arrival (TDOA) val...