US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Feb. 17 for "Antenna measurement using unmanned aerial vehicles" (Missouri, Arizona, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,559, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Antenna measurement using unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Michael Scott Probasco (Frisco, Texas), George Frantz Cummings (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Brett Christian (Independence, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for testing a radio transmitter includes multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The multiple UAVs are deployed in the environment surrounding the radio transmitter, enabling simultaneous measurement of the signal emitted by the radio transmitter at multiple points in a variety of configurations. In some implementations, one of the ...