ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,896, issued on March 17, was assigned to Wisk Aero LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Remote supervision of multiple autonomous aircraft" was invented by Mark Shikerman (San Francisco), Marco Delgado (Portland, Ore.) and Davide Pierini (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide a flight supervision platform including a server computer and an animated graphical user interface for simultaneously monitoring multiple autonomous aircraft. More specifically, techniques disclosed herein provide a flight supervision platform that allows for one-to-many supervision where a remote supervisor (e.g., human or artificial i...