ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,020, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to WISTRON Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method, apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for flight route planning for aerial vehicle" was invented by Shao-Kang Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, an apparatus and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for flight route planning for an aerial vehicle are provided, which generates a plurality of flight routes based on a starting position, an ending position, a total mileage limit, and a minimum network coverage rate. A feature score is given to the total mileage and the network coverage r...