US Patent Issued to MetroStar Systems on April 22 for "Drone to drone communication and task assignment" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,194, issued on April 22, was assigned to MetroStar Systems LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Drone to drone communication and task assignment" was invented by Ali Reza Manouchehri (McLean, Va.), Udaya Chundury (Aldie, Va.) and Vy Truong (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may provide receiving, at a server, one or more communications from a drone, determining the one or more communications identify a drone identifier and a current time, determining whether the one or more communications were received within a time window, assigning a token to the identified drone indicating the drone is active, and storing the token as ...