ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,260, issued on March 18, was assigned to PARAZERO TECHNOLOGIES LTD (Kiryat Ono, Israel).

"Aerial vehicle based damage avoidance system including safety apparatus for mitigating damage to nearby bystanders or vehicles" was invented by Amir Tsaliah (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ran Krauss (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Eden Abraham Attias (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Damage mitigating apparatus comprises in one embodiment a damage mitigating aerial vehicle that has sensors for detecting flight related characteristics and a communication unit for commanding activation of parachute deploying apparatus and of a lift generator deactivat...