US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on Aug. 11 for "Secure high-precision delivery system and method" (Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,856, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Secure high-precision delivery system and method" was invented by Soon Fatt Hoo (Tahlequah, Okla.), Seth E. Ethington (McKinney, Texas), Eric Leroy (Flower Mound, Texas), Qian Zhao (Dallas), Shawnta Nicole Swindell (McLean, Va.), Navaid Hussain (Dallas), Jessica De los Rios (San Antonio) and Jake Hsiao (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for automated guidance of a drone or delivery person via a local (on-site) UWB device for high-precision delivery of items is provided. The drone or delivery person arriv...