ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,984, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VOLATUS AEROSPACE INC. (Vaughan, Canada).

"System and method for secure communication with one or more unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Gregory Colacitti (Vaughan, Canada), Paul Di Benedetto (Vaughan, Canada), Mike J. Fattori (Toronto) and Ruven Shapiro (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a system and method for secure, authenticated communication with one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are described herein. The system includes at least one computing system which is operable with instructions to: receive, from an unmanned aerial vehicle of one or more ...