ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,340, issued on April 22, was assigned to Anduril Industries Inc. (Costa Mesa, Calif.).
"Counter drone system" was invented by Jason Levin (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Palmer F. Luckey (Newport Beach, Calif.), Julian Hammerstein (Murrieta, Calif.) and Joseph Chen (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system comprises a plurality of sensor systems, a counter drone, and a processor. A sensor system of the plurality of sensor systems comprises one or more sensors that are connected to a network. The counter drone is connected to the network. The processor is configured to receive an indication of a potential target from the pluralit...