ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,899, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intertrust Technologies Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Unmanned vehicle management systems and methods" was invented by Yutaka Nagao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing the operation of unmanned vehicles within policy managed locations and/or areas. In some embodiments, an unmanned vehicle may issue an operator signed request to enter a policy managed area and/or use a certain sensor system within a policy managed area to an unmanned vehicle management system. The unmanned vehicle management system may verify the operator's id...