ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,861, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method for managing a vehicle controlled remotely via a communication network, corresponding device, system and computer program" was invented by Fanny Parzysz (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a position of a remotely-controlled vehicle, referred to as a drone, relative to a control entity, the control entity being configured to control the drone by means of a stream of control data transmitted indirectly within a communication established between the control entity and the drone via a communication network, the...