ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,987, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DISH Ukraine LLC (Kharkov, Ukraine).

"Systems and methods for channel based drone operation" was invented by Sergiy Pugach (Kharkov, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating one or more drones including providing at least one user with one or more drone options for viewing corresponding drone video and receiving a drone selection from the at least one user. Video from the selected drone can be streamed to a display device associated with the at least one user. The method can include indicating to the at least one user that the selected drone is available for user control an...