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Leaked patents raise questions… Is “Apple” working on making drones?

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Recently leaked patents have raised questions about the work of the American company “Apple” to launch the first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of its manufacture.

The patents describe roughly “small unmanned aerial vehicles”, which are paired with wireless controllers or drones that operate via an iPhone smartphone or Nintendo DS video game console.
And Apple initially submitted patents for the first time last year 2020 inside an Asian country, Singapore, “in order to preserve the confidentiality of projects,” but it made its way to America in February and April of last year, and it was granted to Apple. On November 11, according to Patently Apple.

The US Patent and Trademark Office published two patent applications from “Apple” based on drones. without pilot.

The first patent raises doubts that Apple may develop a way to create software that can transfer control of the drone from one controller to another in order to increase the overall range of the drone, without having to move alongside it on the ground.

The second patent application is titled “Unmanned Air Vehicle Tracking and Control”, which deals with tracking and monitoring of drones or drones over a cellular network system.

Apple also mentions in this request the drones used in various applications, including obtaining or sensing information, delivering items, or other activities.

It is noteworthy that Apple has submitted a wide range of patents for devices that have never seen the light of day, and drones may be just a project that will never reach the consumer market.

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