US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on May 13 for "Detachable drone hijacker and/or jammer method, apparatus and system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,342, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Detachable drone hijacker and/or jammer method, apparatus and system" was invented by Christian Michael Thiessen (Monterey, Calif.) and Britta Hale (Monterey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and system for countering unmanned aerial systems (UAS). More specifically, this disclosure, and the exemplary embodiments described herein, provide portable detachable/attachable drone hijackers/jammers and systems meant to act as a stand-in electronic warfare device that ...