US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Controlling drone noise based upon height" (Canadian, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,454, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Controlling drone noise based upon height" was invented by Kyle D. Robeson (North York, Canada), Steve Mcduff (Unionville, Canada), Anthony Di Loreto (Markham, Canada) and Ben Z. Akselrod (Givat Shmuel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system and related method manage noise from a drone. This method comprises generating a flight path for the drone from an origin to a destination and determining a path segment ground noise level for each segment that makes up the flight path within each ground level noise zone (GL...