US Patent Issued to Spooky Action on Nov. 3 for "Tethered drone systems and methods for providing telecommunication service" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,410, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Spooky Action Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Tethered drone systems and methods for providing telecommunication service" was invented by Dan V. Dao (Minneapolis), Karl F. Biewald (Minneapolis), Evan M. Widloski (Minneapolis) and Rahul Tiwari (Apple Valley, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tethered drone system has a drone that carries telecommunication equipment, such as one or more cellular transceivers and an antenna, that enables the system to provide access to a telecommunication network for a plurality of remote communication devices in a vicinity of the drone. The drone may be disassembled ...