ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,090, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Drone monitoring and control system" was invented by Yi-Yuan Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Cheng-Hsuan Lin (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Hsin-Tien Yeh (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drone monitoring and control system includes: a drone, a mobile vehicle configured to carry the drone, a computing device and a display device. The drone is disposed with an operation payload and a camera. The drone performs an output operation of the operation payload. The computing device outputs a first environment image according...