ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,701, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle information acquisition system and unmanned aerial vehicle information acquisition method" was invented by Tetsuya Tanabiki (Tokyo), Takuya Hisamoto (Tokyo), Kenichi Kijima (Tokyo), Eiichi Tokumi (Tokyo), Takahiro Mizuta (Tokyo) and Takuya Nomura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention arranges a plurality of receivers, which receive identification information from an unmanned aerial vehicle via wireless communication, at different locations in order to increase the probability of acquiring the identification information transmitte...