The diversity and depth of Apple products at times suggests there’s no limit to what kind of tech the company can produce, or what new activities it might decide to get involved with. Now, a new patent filing raises the question of whether Apple is contemplating a launch into the drone sector – albeit a defined and contained part of it.
A filing with the US Patent and Trademark Office published today lists Apple Inc. as the copyright applicant of a document titled “Systems and Methods for Using Unmanned Aerial Systems In Cellular Networks.” The petition is a seriously but deeply technical description that runs on for a finger-crampingly long page scroll. As such, it’s the kind of reading only wireless communication engineers could love (much less understand). But the Cliff Notes for Geek-o-Speak Dummies thrust of it details a network connecting drones, controllers, and mobile communication systems.
The abstract from the filing – which was made on…
