Volume 8
Oct/Nov 2016 Edition
Drone Aviation Granted Patent for
Electric Tethered Drone Products
Jay Nussbaum, Chairman and CEO of Drone Aviation Corp.
New Patent Covering Core WATT and Bolt Tethered Drone
Technology Expands Intellectual Property Portfolio
Drone Aviation, a manufacturer of tethered drones
and lighter-than-air aerostats, has been awarded
a patent (US Patent 9,446,858) by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its Electric Tethered
Aerial Platform (ETAP) technologies as currently
utilized in its WATT and BOLT tethered drone products.
(See a Timelapse of Drone Aviation’s WATT drone system.
Multiple-hour flight time. Courtesy of Drone Aviation and YouTube)
“As drone adoption accelerates, it is vital that we
protect the key enabling technologies and innovations that are at the heart of our tethered solutions
and provides for their safe and reliable operation,”
said Jay Nussbaum, Chairman and CEO of Drone
Aviation Corp.
“This new patent delivers a significant competitive
advantage for the company while expanding the
value of our existing IP portfolio which includes an
exclusive commercial license to vision-based navigation and advanced autonomous flight management software that we acquired in 2015.”
The new patent entitled “Apparatus and methods
for tethered aerial platform and system” covers the
core systems currently incorporated into the WATT
and BOLT products.
In addition to the new ETAP patent, the Company’s IP portfolio also includes exclusive commercial license to a number of unmanned vehicle technologies developed by Georgia Tech Research
Corporation including “GUST” (Georgia Tech UAV
Simulation Tool) autopilot system and vision-based
navigation and autonomous flight management
software utilized on the WATT and BOLT tethered
platforms.
The WATT ETAP is the Company’s turn-key electric
tethered drone designed to provide secure and reli53