ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,570, issued on July 14, was assigned to Lucid Drone Technologies Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Dual GPS module" was invented by Andrew Ashur (Huntersville, N.C.), Robert Blank (Charlotte, N.C.), Jeremy Allen (Monroe, N.C.) and Thomas Ostrowski (Matthews, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drone includes a drone center housing, a drone top, and a drone bottom. The drone also includes a plurality of arms, a first antenna, and a second antenna. The plurality of arms each extend from the drone center housing. Each arm of the plurality of arms has a motor/propeller set disposed at an arm distal end located opposite the drone center housing....