ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,277, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Efficient storage and architecture for strategic conflict detection in UAV operation management" was invented by Tara Rezvani (Los Gatos, Calif.), Leslie Williams (Palo Alto, Calif.), Reinaldo Negron (San Francisco), Kristen Cregin (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Patrick Kao (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a system for efficient coordination of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations by a first UAV service supplier (USS) in a geographic area within which the first USS and one or more third-party USSes operate UAVs is pro...