ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,168, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).
"Unmanned aerial vehicle controller, and storage medium" was invented by Takashi Miyoshi (Yamanashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a wireless LAN is installed in a factory. Mechanical equipment of the factory includes a short-range wireless communication unit. An unmanned aerial vehicle stores segmented regions of a three-dimensional map or a two-dimensional map of the factory, and wireless stations to which the unmanned aerial vehicle is to connect in the respective regions. The unmanned aerial vehicle switches the wireless stations to c...