US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Sept. 30 for "Towed sensor to aid low swap backup communications" (Washington, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,962, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Towed sensor to aid low swap backup communications" was invented by Gregory Kimberly (Seattle), Jae H. Kim (Bellevue, Wash.) and John Dalton Williams (Decatur, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary communication system for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is provided. The secondary communication system comprises at least one motor on the UAV and a motor controller in each motor that generates a signal from noise generated by the motor. A connector is configured to connect a towed sensor assembly to the UAV. A sensor acts as a receiver for the UAV, w...