ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,611, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Coordinating a number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to be deployed in a region under a set of constraints" was invented by Gamil Abdullah Mohsen Ahmed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Tarek Rahil Omar Sheltami (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coordinating deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) within a designated region involves obtaining constraint data that specifies the operational limitations under which the UAVs are allowed to operate. A cost function is defined, having a set of ...