US Patent Issued to STL Innovation on July 15 for "Mastless aerial lighting system" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,643, issued on July 15, was assigned to STL Innovation LLC (Jersey City, N.J.).

"Mastless aerial lighting system" was invented by John K. Mathew (Emerson, N.J.) and Benny Joseph (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerial lighting system includes: two or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) each including a corresponding high-powered LED array arranged to illuminate an area beneath the UAVs when the UAVs are airborne; a base station configured to retain the UAVs when not airborne, wherein the base station includes a controller for controlling the UAVs; and a plurality of cables for transferring power and data, includi...