US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Jan. 28 for "5G-connected drone routing system capable of monitoring interior environments" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,930, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"5G-connected drone routing system capable of monitoring interior environments" was invented by Timothy E. Cunningham (Dedham, Mass.) and Matthew Mathias (Richmond, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system pairs a 5G-connected drone to a 5G-enabled user-controlled device. The system sets a predicted route for the 5G-connected drone to navigate. A portion of this route is indoors and matches an actual route of the user-controlled device. The system then causes the 5G-connected drone to commence navigating the predicted route. The system receives environme...