US Patent Issued to Sony Group on July 22 for "Apparatus and method for defending a predetermined area from an autonomously moving unmanned aerial vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,434, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method for defending a predetermined area from an autonomously moving unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Francesco Cartella (Stuttgart, Germany), Orlando Anunciacao (Stuttgart, Germany), Karin Cvetko Vah (Stuttgart, Germany) and Olivier Elshocht (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for defending a predetermined area from an autonomously moving Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is provided. The method includes generating one or more adversarial example adapted to disrupt a machine-learning based vision system of the UAV. Additiona...