US Patent Issued to Metal Raptor on Sept. 23 for "Drone air traffic control over satellite networks" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,115, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Metal Raptor Inc. (Huntersville, N.C.).

"Drone air traffic control over satellite networks" was invented by Lee Priest (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) air traffic control method utilizing wireless networks includes communicating with a plurality of UAVs via a plurality of satellites associated with the wireless networks, wherein the plurality of UAVs each include hardware and antennas adapted to communicate to the plurality of satellites; maintaining data associated with flight of each of the plurality of UAVs based on the communicating; and pr...