System and method for safely flying unmanned aerial vehicles in civilian
airspace
Application Number 11/736,356
Filed 4/17/2007
Issued 9/16/2014
Jed Margolin
After two rejections I took it to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The Examiner was partly affirmed and partly reversed. I blogged it. Click here. This is the patent that resulted. It came with a Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) of 2419 days. If I had paid the maintenance fee it would have expired 20 years from 4/17/2007 plus 2419 days. That would have made the expiration date Wednesday, November 30, 2033.
Abstract
A system and method for safely flying an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), or remotely piloted vehicle (RPV) in civilian airspace uses a remotely located pilot to control the aircraft using a synthetic vision system during at least selected phases of the flight such as during take-offs and landings.
Jed Margolin
September 16, 2014
References - Listed Separately (PDF)
Patent References
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U. S. Patent
5,187,485 Passive ranging through global positioning system,
Tsui, et al., February 16, 1993. Assignee: The |
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U.S. Patent 7,765,038 |
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Publication Number 2005/0004723 Vehicle control system including related methods and components Duggan, et al., published 1/6/2005 |
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Publication Number 2006/0174221 Remote component and connection architecture Kinsella, et al., published 8/3/2006 |
Non-Patent References
The listed links are the original
links. In some cases they are broken. The PDF version was made from the
original link and is the document in the File Wrapper.
Sensing Requirements for Unmanned Air Vehicles, AFRL's Air Vehicles Directorate, Control Sciences Division, Systems Development Branch, Wright-Patterson AFB OH, June 2004, http://www.afrlhorizons.com/Briefs/Jun04/VA0306.html . |
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Presentation: Developing Sense & Avoid Requirements for Meeting an Equivalent Level of Safety given by RUSS WOLFE, Technology IPT Lead, Access 5 Project at UVS Tech 2006. (January 18, 2006) |
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Presentation: Integration into the National Airspace System (NAS) given by John Timmerman of the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization (July 12, 2005) |
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Zone Ready for Drone, April 7, 2006, on the web site for the FAA’s Air
Traffic Organization Employees, |
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Virtual Cockpit Window for a Windowless Aerospacecraft NASA Tech Briefs, January 2003 page 40, (http://www.nasatech.com/Briefs/Jan03/MSC23096.html) |
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Press release from Rapid
Imaging Software, Inc. http://www.landform.com/pages/PressReleases.htm |
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Article: Flying UAVs in Civil Airspace By Using Synthetic Vision by Jed Margolin http://www.jmargolin.com/todo/uavs.htm |
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NTSB Incident Report on
crash of Predator on April 25, 2006, northwest of |
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Lockheed's Polecat UCAV Demonstrator Crashes Aviation Week & Space Technology, AMY BUTLER, 03/19/2007, page 44 |
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The F-22 Continues to Encounter Aviation Week & Space Technology, 02/26/2007, page 18 |
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Embedded Experts: Fix code bugs or cost lives, RICK MERIT, EE Times, 04/10/2006 www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID-184429901 |
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Entries from the Software Failure Hall of Shame, Part 1, TOM RHINELANDER, July 06,2006, www.g2zero.com/2006/07/notable_entries_from_the_softw_1.html |
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Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation, MARTIN GOMEZ, Embedded Systems Design, 11/30/01, www.embedded.com/shoArticle.jhtml?articleID=15201692 |
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Supreme Court Decision, Boyle v. United Technologies Corp., 487 |
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Basic Concepts of real-time operating systems, DAVID KALINSKY (Nov. 18, 2003) http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4627965573.html |
The Examiner failed to include these references. They are Exhibits 13 – 15 in my Appeal Brief. If you want to know why the Examiner left them off, see my blog. Click here.
Exhibit 13 – Ex parte MAURICE GIVENS Appeal 2009-003414, BPAI Informative Decision, Decided: August 6, 2009 |
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Exhibit 14 Speech - "Safety Must Come First"; J. Randolph Babbitt, FAA Administrator; November 18, 2009, FAA Web site |
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Exhibit 15 Article - Pentagon Accident Reports Suggest Military's Drone Aircraft Plagued With Problems, by David Zucchino, from The Ledger.com, July 6, 2010. |