US Patent Issued to AeroVironment on April 7 for "System and method for interception and countering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS)" (Indiana, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,371, issued on April 7, was assigned to AeroVironment Inc. (Arlington, Va.).

"System and method for interception and countering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS)" was invented by Christopher Eugene Fisher (Leo, Ind.) and Michael Franklin Morgan (Navarre, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for identifying a target aerial vehicle, deploying an interceptor aerial vehicle comprising at least one effector, maneuvering the interceptor aerial vehicle to a position to engage a target aerial vehicle, deploying the at least one effector to intercept the target aerial vehicle, and confirming that the target aerial v...