US 11,987,400 B2
Expandable decoy unmanned aerial vehicles
Donald Calvin Harring, III, Hood River, OR (US)
Assigned to Insitu, Inc., Bingen, WA (US)
Filed by Insitu, Inc., Bingen, WA (US)
Filed on Oct. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/503,233.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/110,806, filed on Nov. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0144428 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. B64U 20/70 (2023.01); B64C 1/34 (2006.01); B64U 101/19 (2023.01)
CPC B64U 20/70 (2023.01) [B64C 1/34 (2013.01); B64U 2101/19 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
10. An expandable decoy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising:
an expandable body at least partially defining an exterior of the expandable decoy UAV, wherein the expandable body includes an inflatable balloon,
the expandable body configured to be expanded to a desired footprint by moving an upper surface of the expandable body and a lower surface of the expandable body apart from one another; and
a propulsion device operatively coupled to the expandable body, the propulsion device to move the expandable decoy UAV.