US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 23 for "Smart drone rescue and mission rescheduling on a swarm of drones" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,857, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Smart drone rescue and mission rescheduling on a swarm of drones" was invented by Gil Sharon (Haifa, Israel) and Nir Rozenbaum (Yoqneam Illit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for rescuing a malfunctioning drone is provided. The present invention may include responsive to detecting a total failure in a malfunctioning drone comprising a drone fleet, operating one or more rescue drones to physically or virtually attach to the malfunctioning drone; reco...