ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,633, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Dedrone Holdings Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Identifying, tracking, and disrupting unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Alexander Morrow (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zachary Schmid (Palo Alto, Calif.), Joe Price (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mitch Meverden (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Rene Seeber (Kassel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus for identifying, tracking, and disrupting UAVs are described herein. A tracking system can include one or more first computing devices that receive sensor data associated with an object in a particular airspace from one or more sensors. Th...