ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,708, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KDDI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Flight management apparatus and flight management method" was invented by Tomoaki Matsuki (Tokyo), Masayuki Tachiiwa (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Kawana (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight management apparatus includes a reception unit that receives, from a user's terminal, flight schedule information including user identification information for identifying the user, a flight path or a flight range in which a flight apparatus is scheduled to fly, and a flight schedule period in which the flight apparatus is scheduled to fly, an aircraft identification unit that identif...