ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,495, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Flying object, air traffic control system, method for identifying flying object, and computer readable medium" was invented by Toshiaki Yamashita (Tokyo), Hideo Adachi (Tokyo) and Hisashi Mizumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flying object according to example embodiments includes an airframe ID control unit configured to hold an airframe ID of the flying object changed according to a predetermined change pattern, and a communication unit configured to transmit the airframe ID. An air traffic control system according to the example embodiments includes a communica...