US Patent Issued to AeroVironment on Feb. 17 for "Systems and devices for remotely operated unmanned aerial vehicle report-suppressing launcher with portable RF transparent launch tube" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,561, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AeroVironment Inc. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and devices for remotely operated unmanned aerial vehicle report-suppressing launcher with portable RF transparent launch tube" was invented by Carlos Thomas Miralles (Burbank, Calif.), Guan H Su (Rowland Heights, Calif.), Alexander Andryukov (Simi Valley, Calif.) and John McNeil (Tujunga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launch tube that comprises at least one inner layer of prepreg substrate disposed about a right parallelepiped aperture, at least one outer layer of prepreg substrate disposed about the right p...