US Patent Issued to NUtech Ventures on Sept. 23 for "Fire suppression and ignition with unmanned aerial vehicles" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,123, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Neb.).

"Fire suppression and ignition with unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Carrick Detweiler (Lincoln, Neb.), Sebastian Elbaum (Lincoln, Neb.), James Higgins (Lincoln, Neb.), Christian Laney (Papillion, Neb.), Craig Allen (Crete, Neb.), Dirac Twidwell (Lincoln, Neb.) and Evan Michael Beachly (Lincoln, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can be configured for fire suppression and ignition. In some examples, the UAV includes an aerial propulsion system, an ignition system, and a control system. The ignition system includes a c...