US Patent Issued to Ikorongo Technology on May 13 for "Operating a drone device based on capture instructions determined from social network information" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,786, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ikorongo Technology LLC (Swansboro, N.C.).

"Operating a drone device based on capture instructions determined from social network information" was invented by Hugh Blake Svendsen (Swansboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One technique for operating a drone device to capture an image based on capture instructions comprises receiving capture instructions determined from social graph information from a social network, the capture instructions identifying one or more subject faces corresponding to one or more social network users identified in the social graph information; and capturing an ima...