ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,905, issued on May 20, was assigned to Digital Global Systems Inc. (Tysons Corner, Va.).

"Unmanned vehicle recognition and threat management" was invented by David William Kleinbeck (Lees Summit, Mo.) and Armando Montalvo (Winter Garden, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automated unmanned aerial vehicle recognition. A multiplicity of receivers captures RF data and transmits the RF data to at least one node device. The at least one node device comprises a signal processing engine, a detection engine, a classification engine, and a direction finding engine. The at least one node device is configured with an a...