US Patent Issued to Applied Research Associates on Sept. 8 for "Acoustic detection of small unmanned aircraft systems" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,474, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Applied Research Associates Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Acoustic detection of small unmanned aircraft systems" was invented by Robert M. Serino (Albuquerque, N.M.), Mark J. McKenna (Albuquerque, N.M.) and John Haas (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of non-line-of-sight passive detection and integrated early warning of an unmanned aerial system by a plurality of acoustic sensors are described. In some embodiments, the plurality of acoustic sensors is positioned within an intra-netted array in depth according to at least one of a terrain, terrain features, or ma...