US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Dec. 9 for "Unmanned aerial vehicle authentication and authorization by unmanned aerial system traffic management over user plane" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,296, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle authentication and authorization by unmanned aerial system traffic management over user plane" was invented by Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada) and Alec Brusilovsky (Downingtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) authentication and authorization may be performed by a third-party service provider (e.g., an unmanned aerial system traffic management (UTM) over a user plane (UP)). An UAV may be configured to send an UAV ID to a network. The UAV may receive, from the network, security informa...