ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,925, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo).

"Learning device, information processing device, and learned control model" was invented by Mitsuru Nakazawa (Tokyo) and Jun Takizawa (Chino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The learning system SY1 acquires control information output from a control model M by inputting to the control model M environmental information including weather information in at least one of a surrounding environment of an unmanned aerial vehicle P and an environment of a planned flight area of an unmanned aerial vehicle P, and when the unmanned aerial vehicle P takes an action based on...