ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,395, issued on July 1, was assigned to UNMANNED X (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and apparatus for multi-role air-launched small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) and loitering munition" was invented by Saeid A. Alzahrani (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems are provided for the deployment of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) and Loitering Munitions (LM) from an airborne Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS)."

The patent was filed on Jan. 28, 2022, under Application No. 17/587,905.

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