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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2021
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Charles Stahulak, Chicago, IL (US);
Daniel Redmond, Elk Grove, CA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method includes determining current coordinates and a current elevation setting of a first unmanned aerial vehicle that is to be deployed to a candidate location for a microwave radio dish, receiving expected coordinates and an expected elevation setting of a second unmanned aerial vehicle that is deployed to a location of an existing cellular base station, calculating an angle necessary to direct a flash of light from the first unmanned aerial vehicle toward the expected coordinates and expected elevation setting of the second unmanned aerial vehicle, adjusting a current angle of an optical system of the first unmanned aerial vehicle to match the angle that is calculated, and sending a dataset to a centralized computing device, wherein the dataset includes at least an elevation setting of the first unmanned aerial vehicle at a time of capture of an image of the flash by the second unmanned aerial vehicle.