ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,511, issued on July 21, was assigned to Eagle Technology LLC (Melbourne, Fla.) and Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Payload assembly for mobile platforms" was invented by Warner Allen Miller (Boca Raton, Fla.), Michael Lange (Melbourne, Fla.), Victor Bucklew (Richmond, Va.) and Samuel Knarr (Melbourne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a payload assembly is independent of a corresponding mobile platform (e.g. small unmanned aerial vehicle (sUAV), etc.). The payload assembly includes a flight controller (FC), a global positioning system (GPS) unit, a radio frequency (RF) telemetry ...