ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,187, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AURA Network Systems Inc. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for communication resource planning for ground to aerial vehicle communications" was invented by Osama Hussein Tarraf (Fairfax, Va.), Alistair Charles Peter Braden (Oxford, Great Britain), Tamara Lynne Casey (Annapolis, Md.), Shane David Chapman (Clinton, Mont.), Michael Robert Gagne (Monrovia, Md.) and Wayne E. Olson (Hillsborough, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for assigning and managing RF communication links between ground-based stations and airborne assets. In one or more examples, a...