ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,692, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS (Nanjing, China).

"Elastic cooperative inference architecture and method for UAV cluster" was invented by Chao Dong (Nanjing, China), Yuben Qu (Nanjing, China), Hao Sun (Nanjing, China), Feiyu Wu (Nanjing, China), Weiqing Ren (Nanjing, China), Qihui Wu (Nanjing, China) and Lei Zhang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastic cooperative inference architecture and method for UAV cluster can dynamically update the scheduling policy according to the status of each node, and can deal with the failure of some nodes. In addition, the e...