US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Dec. 16 for "Method and apparatus for UAV and UAV controller group membership update" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,774, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for UAV and UAV controller group membership update" was invented by Shuai Zhao (Pleasanton, Calif.), Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the method, an unmanned aerial system application enabler (UAE) server can determine that a first UAV (UAV-1) is to be replaced with a second UAV (UAV-2) based on a received request. The UAV-2 is recognized by the UAE server based on a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) level identity (ID) of the UAV-2. A request to perform a group memb...