US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 29 for "Unmanned aerial vehicle deployment parameter modification" (North Carolina, Virginia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,977, issued on July 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle deployment parameter modification" was invented by Martin G. Keen (Cary, N.C.), Jana H. Jenkins (Raleigh, N.C.), Xin Wang (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and Jennifer A. Mallette (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, in accordance with one embodiment, includes obtaining observational data from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) deployed in a working environment, the working environment including a plurality of entities carrying out tasks within the working environment. The data is analyzed to det...