US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on May 6 for "Intercepting or surrounding a group of hostile UAVs with a net" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,675, issued on May 6, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Intercepting or surrounding a group of hostile UAVs with a net" was invented by Animesh Chakravarthy (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure addresses the problem of UAVs pursuing a swarm of target UAVs. The target UAVs are flying together as a flock that are initially modeled as a circle having a time-varying radius or an arbitrarily-shaped swarm that may change in size. Guidance of the pursuing UAVs is developed based on a collision cone framework, wherein the pursuing UAVs cooperatively steer the...