ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,072, issued on July 7, was assigned to DroneUp LLC (Virginia Beach, Va.).

"Systems and methods to navigate unmanned vehicles based on data processing of flight plans" was invented by Therese Rose Drucker (Chesapeake, Va.) and Remigiusz Zajac (Wroclaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a compute device of a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is included within a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) associated with a site, a representation of a flight plan (1) between a start location at a start time and an end location at an end time, and (2) for the UAV. The method further ...