ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,095, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Guangdong University of Technology (Guangzhou, China).

"Method and system for processing offloading tasks of unmanned aerial vehicle based on edge computing scenario" was invented by Yi Liu (Guangzhou, China) and Zhiheng Wang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for processing offloading tasks of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based on an edge computing scenario are provided. An offloading task model, an offloading task decision model, an offloading task delay calculation model in different offloading scenarios and an offloading task user satisfaction model b...