ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,502, issued on April 14, was assigned to Drobotics LLC (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

"Neural network-guided passive sensor drone inspection system" was invented by Eyal Stein (Sharon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drone system for collecting structural condition data about a structure having an array of sensors disposed at various locations on the structure and methods of using such a drone system are disclosed herein. The drone inspection system leverages neural networks to calculate a drone flight path to classify the location of passive sensors and calculate a drone flight path to collect structural condition data about the st...