ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,123, issued on May 12, was assigned to Three Gorges Hi-Tech Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).

"Electric patrol inspection control method and system based on unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Cheng Xu (Wuhan, China), Yunsheng Xu (Wuhan, China), Jun Tang (Wuhan, China), Yu Xiao (Wuhan, China), Xiaomi Zhu (Wuhan, China), Xingchen Xiang (Wuhan, China), Chengshi He (Wuhan, China) and Chen Li (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an electric patrol inspection control method and an electric patrol inspection control system based on an unmanned aerial vehicle. The method includes: formulating a flight...