ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,065, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to BULL SAS (Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France).

"Method for surveilling an area of interest using drones" was invented by Purshottam Purswani (New South Wales, Australia) and Teak Wei Chong (Pasir Gudang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a computer-implemented surveillance method for surveilling an area of interest using a set of drones, the surveillance method including monitoring a number of operational drones among the set of drones. If a change in the number of operational drones is detected, performing a segmentation step for segmenting the area of interest into ...