US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on April 7 for "Enhancements to beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) operation of remote-controlled apparatuses" (Virginia, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,365, issued on April 7, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Enhancements to beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) operation of remote-controlled apparatuses" was invented by Zheng Fang (McLean, Va.) and George Jason Schnellbacher (Leawood, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) control of drones is enhanced using wireless communication via a cellular network. In an example system, a drone and a remote control station are configured to communicate via a 5G network. Drone control is further enhanced with extended reality (XR) display. Video stream data captured by the drone is replaced, ...