ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,108, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle and method for an unmanned aerial vehicle for generating a temporary flight-plan for a region" was invented by Bi Wang (Stuttgart, Germany) and Florian Becker (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, UAV, for generating a temporary flight-plan for a region is provided. The method includes determining whether any air traffic control station is emitting a flight-plan for the region. If it is determined that no air traffic control station is emitting a flight-plan for the region, the method furt...