ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,592, issued on June 9, was assigned to Brookhurst Garage Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Aerial drone structure and reinforcement" was invented by Young Joon Kim (San Jose, Calif.) and Taewon Bae (Suwon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerial drone may include a drone body having a longitudinal housing carrying a processing circuit and a battery, the longitudinal housing extending in a first direction. The drone may include a sensor rod carried by the drone body and extending from the drone body in a second direction different from the first direction, the sensor rod carrying a sensor at a distal end of the sensor rod. The dro...