ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,124, issued on June 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Drone parcel delivery matrix-based safety determination" was invented by Sarvesh S. Patel (Pune, India), Gandhi Sivakumar (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kushal S. Patel (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer system, and a computer program product are provided. A first computer receives a message that indicates a destination location for a drone flight. The first computer generates a first recommendation for a route from a departure location to the destination location for the drone flight. The gen...