ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,221, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Datalink arbitration with framed broadcast" was invented by Aaron Mitchell Hitchcock (Fort Worth, Texas) and Hunter Nelson Morgan (Hurst, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of arbitrating communications between unmanned aerial system (UAS) devices includes: receiving, at a first communication component of a first UAS device, information for transmission to a destination associated with a second UAS device; inserting, by a first arbiter executing on the first communication component, a message sequence indication into a payload of a data...