David M Barone

US Patent:

20180227073, Aug 9, 2018

Filed:

Feb 3, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/424435

Inventors:

- Hunt Valley MD, US
John Bernard Kuhl - New Freedom PA, US
Robert Johns - Westminster MD, US
David Barone - New Freedom PA, US

International Classification:

H04K 3/00
G08G 5/00
G01S 19/21
G05D 1/00
B64C 39/02

Abstract:

A technique for adaptively disrupting UAVs detects a target UAV using a camera, monitors the target UAV's communications using a directional antenna aligned with the camera, and attempts to communicate with the target UAV to request that it land, fly away, or return to launch. With the camera trained on the UAV, the directional antenna detects down-link signals from the UAV, which the UAV may employ to communicate with a ground-based controller. Control circuitry analyzes the down-link signals and generates a disrupting signal based thereon. The disrupting signal shares characteristics with the down-link signal, such as its protocol, bit rate, and/or packet length. The directional antenna transmits the disrupting signal back toward the UAV to affect the UAV's flight.