ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,518, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sedi-Ati Fibres Optiques (Evry Courcouronnes, France).
"Deployable on-board optical fiber link for aerial drones" was invented by Samir Laskri (Ris Orangis, France), Herve Aube (La Norville, France) and Jean-Francois Vinchant (La Ferte-Alais, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A real-time high-definition imaging system includes a rotary-wing aerial drone that is remote-controlled by way of a control device. The drone includes at least one high-definition image sensor, a signal processing module for producing an image stream. The system includes real-time transmission means for transmitting t...