ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,578, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GeoFrenzy Inc. (Tiburon, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for geofence security" was invented by Bennett Hill Branscomb (Ingleside, Texas) and Benjamin T. Jones (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to methods and systems for enforcing at least one rule within a geofence. The rule is enforced by a fencing agent on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The geofence is defined by a plurality of geographic designators, with the plurality of geographic designators each being associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) address, preferably an IPv6 address."
The patent wa...