ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,762, issued on May 13, was assigned to Flytrex Aviation Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"System and method for aerial traffic management of unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Yariv Bash (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Amit Regev (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for aerial traffic management of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are provided. The method includes receiving at least a navigation request from a first UAV of a plurality of UAVs, wherein the navigation request specifies at least a waypoint; determining whether the waypoint is clear; sending an instruction the first UAV to hover at a specified positi...