This is a PreGrant Publication.
After two rejections I took it to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
(BPAI) which, with the recent major changes to the Patent Law under the
Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011, is now called the Patent Trial
and Appeal Board (PTAB). I blogged it separately. Click
here. It eventually resulted in
System and Method For Safely Flying Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles in Civilian Airspace
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.
References - Listed Separately (PDF)
Patent References
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U. S. Patent
5,187,485 Passive ranging through global positioning system,
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Publication Number 20060174221 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 |