ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,698, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CICONIA LTD. (Nes-Ziona, Israel).

"Method and system for avoiding mid-air collisions and traffic control" was invented by Moshe Cohen (Ra'anana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collision avoidance system (CAS) airborne unit onboard an aerial platform of a first priority level includes a navigational module to determine current position of the aerial platform; a communication module to intermittently transmit a localization transmission, and to receive intermittently transmitted localization transmissions from another CAS airborne unit on-board another lower priority level aerial platform;...