ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,948, issued on June 17, was assigned to RELIABLE ROBOTICS Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System for managing remote calls to an air traffic control facility or other ground station via an uncrewed aircraft" was invented by Chadwick Healy (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Westenhaver (Mountain View, Calif.), John Folliard (Mountain View, Calif.), James Conrad (Mountain View, Calif.), Lewis Catton (Mountain View, Calif.) and Casey Klebba (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and graphical user interface for managing communications between a remote terminal device operated by a remote pilot or other operator and an uncrewed air...