ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,019, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Processes for generating and updating flyable airspace for unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Dinuka Abeywardena (Mountain View, Calif.), Konstantin Bozhkov (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kyle Kakligian (San Francisco), Stephen Lacy (Mountain View, Calif.), Scott Barron (Oakland, Calif.), Brandon Jones (Redwood City, Calif.), Aditya Undurti (Dublin, Calif.), Kyle David Julian (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sai Bhargav Yalamanchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a digital surface model of an area for unmanned aeri...