ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,661, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Drone classification device and method of classifying drones" was invented by Maya Mani (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drone classification device is provided. The drone classification device includes a radio signal receiver configured to receive a radio signal, and a radio signal analyzer configured to determine physical characteristics of the received radio signal, to compare the determined physical characteristics of the received radio signal with a plurality of reference characteristics, each reference characteristics describing a drone c...