ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,604, issued on July 21, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle and localization method for unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Lihua Xie (Singapore), Pham Nhat Thien Minh Nguyen (Singapore), Muqing Cao (Singapore) and Shenghai Yuan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle aerial vehicle and a localization method for an unmanned aerial vehicle aerial vehicle are described. In an embodiment, an unmanned aerial vehicle comprises: a first ultra-wide band node; a second ultra-wide band node; and a localization processor configured to use signals received at t...