ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,680, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).
"Deployment and management of drone-based mesh network for emergency communications" was invented by Bradly Jay Billman (Celina, Texas) and Dwayne Phillip Wilson (Crossroads, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for deploying drones to provide residents of an area impacted by a disaster with emergency communication services. The system and method are configured to automatically generate custom drone deployment configurations that can be used to form an ad-hoc network in the region using one or more communication dron...