US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Jan. 13 for "Methods of a mobile edge computing (MEC) deployment for unmanned aerial system traffic management (UTM) system applications" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,134, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods of a mobile edge computing (MEC) deployment for unmanned aerial system traffic management (UTM) system applications" was invented by Jun Li (Cranbury, N.J.), James Cistone (Hanover, Pa.), Ravikumar V. Pragada (Warrington, Pa.), Nagi Mahalingam (San Diego) and Michel Roy (Candiac, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may detect a risk of collision with one or more objects in an airspace serviced by a mobile edge computing (MEC) node. The MEC node may provide an edge detect and avoid (edge-DAA) functi...