ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,654, issued on July 21, was assigned to Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing).

"Three-component airborne transient electromagnetic detection system and method with UAV" was invented by Lihua Liu (Beijing), Ling Huang (Beijing), Jiankai Li (Beijing), Zhen Ke (Beijing), Shichu Yan (Beijing), Xiaojun Liu (Beijing) and Guangyou Fang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are provided. The system includes an airborne detection system and a ground assistance system. The airborne detection system includes an unmanned aerial vehicle, a receiving device, a transmitting device, a...