US Patent Issued to Sony Group, Sony Europe on Sept. 9 for "Device, computer program and method for monitoring an UAV" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,480, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo) and Sony Europe B.V. (Weybridge, Great Britain).

"Device, computer program and method for monitoring an UAV" was invented by Nicolas Rose (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: locating an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) which is in breach of a predetermined rule; communicating an indication of the breach to the UAV; monitoring the movement of the UAV following the communication of the breach; and in the event of the movement being below a threshold amount after a predetermined time, the method comprises: notifying another device ...