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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2024
T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);
Scott Jacka, Seattle, WA (US);
Sean Murphy, Renton, WA (US);
George Schnellbacher, Overland Park, KS (US);
Joao Teixeira, Shawnee, KS (US);
T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
An aerial vehicle system configured to transmit, to a carrier network system, input parameters associated with a requested flight route for an unmanned aerial vehicle, receive signal range data corresponding to a plurality of cell sites based on the input parameters, in which the signal range data for each cell site indicates a three-dimensional distance range within which a signal strength from the cell site is at least a signal strength threshold, and determine one or more flight tunnels for the unmanned aerial vehicle using the signal range data, in which the unmanned aerial vehicle maintains at least the signal strength threshold when the unmanned aerial vehicle flies within the one or more flight tunnels.