US Patent Issued to IMI SYSTEMS on Aug. 26 for "Incoming threat protection system and method of using same" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,982, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to IMI SYSTEMS LTD. (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

"Incoming threat protection system and method of using same" was invented by Yinon Degani (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Arye Raybee (Ramat Hasharon, Israel) and Gil Sasi Segev (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to threat protection, in particular a system and method providing active protection using at least one UAV, e.g., drone, to neutralize an incoming aerial or ground threat or diminish or prevent damage caused, directly or indirectly, from the incoming threat."

The patent was filed on May 24, 2021, un...