ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,393, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Unmanned aerial device, information processing method, and computer-readable medium that records control program" was invented by Daiki Tanaka (Tokyo), Toshiaki Tazume (Tokyo) and Takayoshi Inuma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle executes: a movement control process that moves the unmanned aerial vehicle to a delivery area including a delivery address to which a package is to be delivered, the delivery area including delivery destination candidates, and each of the delivery destination candidates including an identification information i...