US Patent Issued to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 5 for "Apparatus and method for detecting, identifying and locating drones" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,482, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Apparatus and method for detecting, identifying and locating drones" was invented by Tyler Shake (Sykesville, Md.), Thomas Wilkerson (Baltimore) and John Dishon (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drone detection, identification and location system and method may illuminate a target with one or multiple selected radio-frequency (RF) carrier frequencies. Both direct emissions received from the target and re-emissions generated by the target may be processed to determine whether the target is a drone. The re-emissions may be generated by circui...