Vigilant Aerospace celebrated the publication of NASA’s Patent #9,405,005 today!
Vigilant Aerospace is the exclusive licensee of this patent, which includes technologies for:
- Integration of aircraft transponders onto unmanned aircraft
- Signal processing and integrity
- Loss-of-signal contingencies
- Detect-and-avoid processes and contingencies
- A software user interface for air traffic display and airspace management
- Display of air traffic to a geo-browser including 2D and 3D displays
- And other innovations…
You can read the whole patent publication here:
Patent #9,405,005
NASA Patent Licensed by Vigilant Aerospace Systems
The technologies were invented by Flight Systems Engineer Dr. Ricardo Arteaga working at
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center.
The patent is the culmination of several years of work developing flight safety systems for drones and especially a focus on allowing drones to integrate with air traffic control, to enter the national airspace and to obtain authorization for beyond line-of-sight flight.
The patent and associated licensed technologies have been used by Vigilant Aerospace as the basis for our new
FlightHorizon UAS™ and
FlightHorizon GA™ products, which were recently announced.
Congratulations to Dr. Arteaga and the whole team at NASA Armstrong on the new patent and a bright future for safe unmanned flight in the national airspace!
Want to know more about how FlightHorizon helps make drones safer?
Watch our new 2-minute explainer video:
Top Image: from left, Dr. Ricardo Arteaga, Mike Dandachy and intern Moshe Cavalin use FAA’s ADS-B aircraft tracking technology to work on a simulation of unmanned aircraft in the national air space.
Credits: NASA
Vigilant Aerospace is the leading developer of detect-and-avoid and airspace management software for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS or drones). The company’s product, FlightHorizon, is based on two NASA patents and uses data from multiple sources to display a real-time picture of the air traffic around a UAS and to provide automatic avoidance maneuvers to prevent collisions. The software is designed to meet industry technical standards, to provide automatic safety and to allow UAS to safely fly beyond the sight of the pilot. The software has won multiple industry awards and the company has had contracts and users at NASA, the FAA, the U.S. Department of Defense and with a variety of drone development programs. Visit our website at www.VigilantAerospace.com