ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,637, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Incorproated (San Diego).

"Signaling configurations for communication with unmanned aerial systems" was invented by Le Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Alberto Rico Alvarino (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Chiranjib Saha (Lakeside, Calif.), Umesh Phuyal (San Diego), Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego), Juan Montojo (San Diego) and Vishnu Vardhan Chetlur Ravi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may be configured to communicate at least one pilot signal with another apparatus according to a first configuration, at least one of a lower frequency density or a higher time density be...