US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 13 for "Managing an unmanned aerial vehicle identity" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,732, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Managing an unmanned aerial vehicle identity" was invented by Drew Foster Van Duren (Templeton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments of systems and methods for managing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) identity, a processor of a network computing device may generate an anonymity token that is associated with a digital certificate of a UAV, provide the anonymity token to the UAV for use in operations, receive a request to authenticate the UAV, wherein the request includes the anonymity token, determine whether the anonymity token included in the request...