US Patent Issued to The MITRE on Sept. 23 for "Layered multi-module autonomous systems" (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,926, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The MITRE Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Layered multi-module autonomous systems" was invented by Dennis Bushmitch (Newark, Del.), John H. Fikus (Interlaken, N.J.), Robert Monto (Newark, Del.) and Kevin Gemp (Clarksville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein, according to various aspects, are unmanned aerial systems (UAS) that can carry multiple layered modules on a mission. An exemplary UAS may include layered modules that contain functional components such as communication relay modules, armor, batteries, charging modules, propulsion modules, GPS modules, sensor modules, processors, d...