US Patent Issued to Performance Drone Works on Sept. 9 for "Signal intelligence payload for unmanned aerial vehicle" (Alabama, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,482, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Performance Drone Works LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Signal intelligence payload for unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Adam Daigler Wetzel (Huntsville, Ala.) and Dylan Thomas Hamm (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) payload includes an adaptive Software Defined Radio (SDR) interface that is configurable to communicate with two or more SDRs using two or more protocols, a UAV interface that is configured to communicate with the UAV and a control circuit connected to the adaptive SDR interface and to the UAV interface. The control circuit is configured...