ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,744, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT WURZBURG (Wurzburg, Germany).
"Light-driven nanodrones" was invented by Bert Hecht (Zell am Main, Germany), Xiaofei Wu (Gerbrunn, Germany) and Raphael Ehehalt (Birkenfeld, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a nanodrone, a method of operating a nanodrone, and a system for operating a nanodrone. The nanodrone comprises a substrate extending perpendicular to a normal direction and two or more nanoantennas arranged on and/or in the substrate. Each of the two or more nanoantennas exhibits an optically addressable resonance at a re...