ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,773, issued on June 16, was assigned to Verity AG (Zurich).

"System having a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles and a method of controlling a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Federico Augugliaro (Zurich), Markus Waibel (Zurich), Markus Hehn (Zurich), Raffaello D'Andrea (Wollerau, Switzerland) and Luca Gherardi (Oberrieden, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising, a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles and a single controller for controlling said plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles, wherein the single controller is configured such that it can broadcast a command to all of the pluralit...