ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,649, issued on April 29, was assigned to HANWHA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for operating electronic detonator blaster with integrated flight function" was invented by Jeong Ho Choi (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are an apparatus and a method for operating an electronic detonator blaster with an integrated flight function. The apparatus includes a blasting command transmission part configured to transmit a blasting command to each of electronic detonators which are combined with a flying vehicle capable of being flown and controlled by induction of radio waves and are connected ...