ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,492, issued on July 14, was assigned to SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Flight control method and apparatus, and control device" was invented by Zhuo Guo (Shenzhen, China), Zhuo Xie (Shenzhen, China), Haoyu Li (Shenzhen, China), Wenlin Li (Shenzhen, China), Ding Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Zebo Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method includes generating, through a processor, route data of a route, instructing the movable object to execute the route data, detecting an execution status of the movable object, in response to detecting that the movable object is in a route recovery state, contro...