ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,000, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Dynamic UAV transport tasks for pickup and delivery of non-specifically assigned packages" was invented by Andre Prager (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gaurav Garg (Fremont, Calif.), Theran Cochran (Tucson, Ariz.) and Jonathan Lesser (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations relate to a method of dynamically updating a transport task of a UAV. The method includes receiving, at a transport-provider computing system, an item provider request for transportation of a plurality of packages from a loading location at a given future time. The ...