ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,650, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Suspicious aircraft countermeasure device, suspicious aircraft countermeasure method, and recording medium" was invented by Tomoyuki Muto (Tokyo), Shohei Ikeda (Tokyo) and Kenichi Keyaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to deal with suspicious aircraft, which are unmanned aircraft that are not authorized to fly in a surveillance airspace, while preventing adverse effects on authorized aircraft, which are unmanned aircraft that are authorized to fly in the surveillance airspace, this device for dealing with suspicious aircraft includes a detection unit and an in...