ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,705, issued on May 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing system, control device, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Takao Fujiwara (Tokyo), Makoto Mitsukawa (Tokyo), Katsuyuki Okubo (Tokyo), Hiroaki Yoshida (Tokyo), Kota Nakauchi (Tokyo), Naruaki Watanabe (Tokyo) and Shun Fujitsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing system comprises: an unmanned aerial vehicle including an image capturing unit capable of capturing an image of a subject in a flight state; and a control device capable of communicating with a terminal of the subject and the unmanned aerial vehicle. The co...