US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on May 6 for "Unmanned aerial vehicle detection, slice assignment and beam management" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,940, issued on May 6, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle detection, slice assignment and beam management" was invented by Jin Yang (Orinda, Calif.), Lalit R. Kotecha (San Ramon, Calif.), Donna L. Polehn (Mercer Island, Wash.), Arda Aksu (Lafayette, Calif.) and Vishwanath Ramamurthi (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include transmitting multiple antenna beams to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and determining a location of the UAV. The method may also include identifying a network slice to service the UAV, assigning the identified network slic...