US Patent Issued to MBDA FRANCE on May 27 for "System for neutralising a target using a drone and a missile" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,379, issued on May 27, was assigned to MBDA FRANCE (Le Plessis Robinson, France).

"System for neutralising a target using a drone and a missile" was invented by Mathias Formoso (Le Plessis-Robinson, France), Vincent Jeauneau (Le Plessis-Robinson, France), Alexandre Kotenkoff (Le Plessis-Robinson, France) and Alain Bandini (Le Plessis-Robinson, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The neutralisation system (1) comprises a drone (2) configured to be able to fly close to a target and transmit at least position information concerning the position of the target, the neutralisation system (1) also comprising at least one missile (6) capab...