ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,020, issued on March 3, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for delivering medication and medical supplies to persons in need thereof in response to a large scale emergency scenario" was invented by Sumayah Abdulaziz Alrabiaah (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Manar Ibrahim Hosny (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Sarab Abdulwahab Almuhaideb (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for delivering medication or medical supplies to persons in need thereof by using drones includes receiving patient data, said data listing a plurality of patients needing medical assistance. Drone data is rec...