ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,993, issued on July 29, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods, apparatus and systems for command control (C2) communications setup and update" was invented by Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada), Atle Monrad (Froland, Norway), Guanzhou Wang (Brossard, Canada) and Michelle Perras (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus and systems are disclosed that may be implemented in wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and/or a UAV-controller (UAV-C). In one representative method, the UAV may switch from a first Command Control (C2) communication link betwee...