US Patent Issued to Northeastern University on Feb. 18 for "Software defined drone network control system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,150, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston).

"Software defined drone network control system" was invented by Tommaso Melodia (Newton, Mass.), Lorenzo Bertizzolo (Boston), Zhangyu Guan (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) and Salvatore D'Oro (Allston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm network including receiving, at a control terminal, an operator input defining a plurality of network performance directives, constructing a network control model representing the plurality of network performance directives, decomposing the network c...