US patent app on "invisible" spy drone?
from discoverychannel:
VeraTech filed the patent [application] Sept. 28 detailing their "Phantom Sentinel" product: The craft looks like a long letter "Y" with a nose making most of its length - slated to be between two and ten feet. The nose is connected to a boomerang-shaped end and propellers are adorned to two other ends.
While flying, the aircraft makes itself nearly invisible by spinning around very quickly. Much like helicopter-blades appear as only a blur, the Phantom uses a "persistence of vision" phenomenon to seem invisible.
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"We're trying to get it into a military application in the next six to eight months," VeraTech President Dean A. Tangren told discoverychannel.ca. "It may come out as a police department use before then."
[This would seem to be an example of a company disclosing its patent application long before the 18 month publication time, of some relevance to the publicized IBM application disclosure policy.]
VeraTech filed the patent [application] Sept. 28 detailing their "Phantom Sentinel" product: The craft looks like a long letter "Y" with a nose making most of its length - slated to be between two and ten feet. The nose is connected to a boomerang-shaped end and propellers are adorned to two other ends.
While flying, the aircraft makes itself nearly invisible by spinning around very quickly. Much like helicopter-blades appear as only a blur, the Phantom uses a "persistence of vision" phenomenon to seem invisible.
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"We're trying to get it into a military application in the next six to eight months," VeraTech President Dean A. Tangren told discoverychannel.ca. "It may come out as a police department use before then."
[This would seem to be an example of a company disclosing its patent application long before the 18 month publication time, of some relevance to the publicized IBM application disclosure policy.]
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