ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,550, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Flight path generation apparatus, aircraft system, flight path generation method, and readable medium" was invented by Hisashi Mizumoto (Tokyo) and Toshiaki Yamashita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flight path generation apparatus (300) is configured to generate a flight path for an aircraft (100) capable of autonomously flying, and includes: an airframe information acquisition unit (301) configured to acquire airframe information including airframe IDs and take-off places of a plurality of aircraft (100); a movement information acquisition unit (302) configured to ...