ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,821, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nullmax (Hong Kong) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Autonomous driving system with air support" was invented by Lei Xu (Hong Kong), Erkang Cheng (Hong Kong) and Tingting Zhu (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects an autonomous driving system with air support are described herein. The aspects may include an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the air and a land vehicle on the ground communicatively connected to the UAV. The UAV may include at least one UAV camera configured to collect first ground traffic information and a UAV communication module configured to transmit the collected first ground tra...