US Patent Issued to DRONE OPERATIONS on July 7 for "Systems and methods for autonomous swarm operations in subterranean and GPS-denied environments" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,670, issued on July 7, was assigned to DRONE OPERATIONS LLC (Mosinee, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for autonomous swarm operations in subterranean and GPS-denied environments" was invented by Nicholas Thompson (Mosinee, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous drone swarm system and method for subterranean and GPS-denied operations utilizing artificial intelligence for coordinated operations comprises command drones equipped with large language model processors and subordinate drones coordinated through a hierarchical Queen-Worker architecture. The system processes natural language commands, generates autonomous mission plans,...