US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on July 28 for "Methods and systems for aerial vehicle routing based on optimal network connections" (Washington, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,671, issued on July 28, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Methods and systems for aerial vehicle routing based on optimal network connections" was invented by Scott Jacka (Seattle), Sean Murphy (Renton, Wash.), George Schnellbacher (Overland Park, Kan.) and Joao Teixeira (Shawnee, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerial vehicle system configured to transmit, to a carrier network system, input parameters associated with a requested flight route for an unmanned aerial vehicle, receive signal range data corresponding to a plurality of cell sites based on the input parameters, in which the signal rang...