US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on July 15 for "Distributed detect and avoid for unmanned vehicles" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,836, issued on July 15, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Distributed detect and avoid for unmanned vehicles" was invented by Nagi Mahalingam (San Diego), Ravikumar V. Pragada (Warrington, Pa.) and Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and instrumentalities for a distributed detect and avoid (DM) framework for unmanned vehicles, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The systems, methods and instrumentalities may include a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) associated with a vehicle. The WTRU may include a memory and a processor. The processor...