US Patent Issued to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology on Sept. 29 for "System and method for controlling mobile node group, and communication device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,037, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Tokyo).

"System and method for controlling mobile node group, and communication device" was invented by Yuma Abe (Tokyo), Hideaki Kotake (Tokyo) and Morio Toyoshima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To control a mobile node group that performs a formation flight, mobile nodes constituting the mobile node group and a ground station that wirelessly communicates with each of the mobile nodes are included. The mobile nodes are classified into a follower mobile node and a leader mobile node that collects information on the follow...