ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,778, issued on June 3, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).
"Violation detection for unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Rajat Agrawal (Denver) and Athanasios Apostolopoulos (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated environment for violation detection for unmanned aerial vehicles includes obtaining an identification associated with an unmanned aerial vehicle, analyzing a sound received by a microphone, and determining if the sound is associated with the unmanned aerial vehicle. Responsive to determining the sound is associated with the unmanned aerial vehicle, the automated environment f...