ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,019, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Spleenlab GmbH (Germany).

"Method for safely determining a flight path of an unmanned aerial vehicle, and unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Stefan Milz (Saalburg-Ebersdorf, Germany), Florian Olsner (Jena, Germany), Sukumar Karthigeyan (Bad Lobenstein, Germany), Ashwanth Ammapalayam Ravichandran (Bad Lobenstein, Germany) and Chris Hagen (Bad Lobenstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for safely determining a flight path of an unmanned aerial vehicle, in which an unmanned aerial vehicle is moved along a three-dimensional flight path and in which context the following is re...