ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,819, issued on June 23, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Unmanned vehicle monitoring apparatus and method" was invented by Seyoung Baik (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sangwook Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an unmanned vehicle monitoring apparatus and method. The unmanned vehicle monitoring apparatus may include a safety device including at least one of a parachute or an additional wing, or a combination thereof, and a multi-functional data recording module configured to monitor a flight state of an unmanned vehicle to detect an a...