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Patent No.:

US 12424115 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 16, 2022

Drone air traffic control over satellite networks

Applicant:

Metal Raptor, Llc, Raleigh, NC (US);

Inventor:

Lee Priest, Charlotte, NC (US);

Assignee:

Metal Raptor Inc., Huntersville, NC (US);

Attorneys:

Baratta Law PLLC

Lawrence A. Baratta, Jr.

Ryan Odessa

Primary Examiner:

Russell Frejd

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 5/55 (2025.01); B64U 10/14 (2023.01); B64U 30/20 (2023.01); B64U 101/20 (2023.01); B64U 101/64 (2023.01); G08G 5/56 (2025.01); G08G 5/57 (2025.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 5/55 (2025.01); G08G 5/56 (2025.01); G08G 5/57 (2025.01); B64U 10/14 (2023.01); B64U 30/20 (2023.01); B64U 2101/20 (2023.01); B64U 2101/64 (2023.01); B64U 2201/10 (2023.01);
Abstract

An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) air traffic control method utilizing wireless networks includes communicating with a plurality of UAVs via a plurality of satellites associated with the wireless networks, wherein the plurality of UAVs each include hardware and antennas adapted to communicate to the plurality of satellites; maintaining data associated with flight of each of the plurality of UAVs based on the communicating; and processing the maintained data to perform a plurality of function associated with air traffic control of the plurality of UAVs.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Priest, Lee. (2025). Drone air traffic control over satellite networks (U.S. Patent No. 12424115). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12424115

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