ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,231, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of The University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Configurable unmanned aerial vehicle system" was invented by Hossein Rastgoftar (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an unmanned vehicle system that includes: a first non-terminal cell enclosing a first plurality of terminal cells, each of the first plurality of terminal cells enclosing a respective unmanned arial vehicle (UAV); a second non-terminal cell enclosing a second plurality of terminal cells, each of the second plurality of terminal cells enclosing a respective UA...