ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,235, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for using an aerial access network including unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Basem Almadani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdurrahman Beg (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods relate to an aerial access network (AAN). The system comprises multiple control layer units, multiple forwarding layer units, and multiple access layer units. A first control layer unit in the multiple control layer units is configured to administrate the multiple forwarding layer units a...