US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 24 for "Apparatus, method, and computer program for discovering a group of unmanned aerial vehicles" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,480, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program for discovering a group of unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Zhilan Xiong (Bristol, Great Britain), Man Hung Ng (Wiltshire, Great Britain), Matthew Baker (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain) and Ping-Heng Kuo (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an apparatus including circuitry for: selecting at least one covered user equipment among a plurality of covered user equipment inside the coverage area of the apparatus; sending, to the at least one covered user equipment, a searching message...