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US 10249199
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Patent Overview — US10249199B2
Title: System and method for aerial system discrimination and action
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US10249199](/patent/US10249199)/en (fetched 2026-10-07)
Patent number / application: US10249199B2; application US15/598,303; pre-grant publication US20180197420A1.
Inventor: Jasminder S. Banga
Assignee: Originally Airspace Systems Inc; listed current assignee Airspace Defense Inc. The excerpt shows a 2018-12-21 assignment to Airspace Systems, Inc. and later 2025–2026 reassignments to Airspace Defense, Inc.
Key dates (as listed in the excerpt): priority date 2016-03-17; filing date 2017-05-17; publication date 2019-04-02; anticipated expiration 2037-05-17; legal status Active.
Purpose and plain-language scope: The patent concerns discriminating between aerial systems (e.g., drones) and taking action based on that discrimination. The listed prior-art keywords — aerial, identifier, aerial system, airspace, disruption — indicate the subject matter involves identifying an aerial system and responding within airspace, potentially through some form of disruption or countermeasure. Classifications support this reading, covering traffic control for aircraft and unmanned aircraft, predefined/prohibited flight zones, identification of friend or foe (IFF) radar, jamming and countermeasures (including GPS and remote-control jamming), geofencing, and authentication/access security. No claim text is present in the excerpt, so the exact claimed scope cannot be stated.
What the excerpt does not establish: It contains no claims, no written description, and no abstract, so the precise claimed invention, the specific discrimination techniques, and the nature of any "action" or "disruption" are not verifiable from this material alone. The excerpt also does not specify the technical components, embodiments, or figures. Date and assignee entries are stated as assumptions by the source and are not legal conclusions. Nothing about litigation, validity, or prior art is assessed here.
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