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SETEC Astronomy has filed 82 patent claims across 12 claim families covering two autonomous defense platforms. Conceived May 6, 2026. Patent Pending.
Travis Martin, Inventor · SETEC Astronomy LLC · Norman, Oklahoma
82
Patent Claims
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Claim Families
2
Platforms
2026
Filed
// Two Platforms
The Systems
SETEC Sphere
Maritime Drone Sentinel System
The first ship-agnostic autonomous defense system a commercial operator can actually afford and deploy. Subsurface, surface, and aerial threat detection from a single packout case — no vessel modification, no GPS dependency, no ship system integration. Operational on any vessel in under 30 minutes.
Built for fishing fleets, commercial cargo, tanker operators, and coast guard — scales seamlessly to naval and government applications. From $25,000.
When every other solution requires a shipyard and a systems integrator, SETEC Sphere requires a crane and 30 minutes.
SETEC Sentry
Land-Based Perimeter Defense System
The same kinetic intercept architecture that protects vessels at sea — now protecting your most critical infrastructure on land. Oil refineries, LNG terminals, nuclear facilities, military FOBs, embassies, data centers. No permits. No permanent installation. Operational in 30 minutes.
Built for operators who can't wait for a solution designed around a government procurement cycle. Crane-deliverable, container-based, and relocatable the same day.
When a $500 COTS drone can shut down a refinery, the answer isn't a $10M radar installation. It's SETEC Sentry.
// 12 Claim Families · 82 Claims
Patent Claim Families
Core Architecture
Three-layer detection envelope deployed from a single vessel: Layer 1 subsurface (100m radius, AUV Sphere Sensor formation), Layer 2 surface (150m radius), and Layer 3 aerial surveillance (200m radius, Sphere Air UAVs). FALCL tethered kinetic denial platform at bow. Sorcerer C2 (201) and Spear interceptor (104) housed aboard vessel (100) with Leonidas HPM (105) directed energy. API track data link (107) to external systems.
- ›Three concentric detection envelopes — subsurface, surface, aerial
- ›FALCL bow-tethered kinetic denial at 150m radius
- ›Leonidas HPM directed energy aboard vessel
- ›API track data link to external C2 systems
System Architecture
SETEC Sorcerer (200) unified AI C2 manages 2 to 128 drones through Three-Tier Control (201): T1 Autonomous, T2 Edge AI, T3 HW Override. Five drone classes: Sphere Sensor AUV 300m 6-pack (202), Sphere Deep AUV 3000m 2-pack (203), Spear Water kinetic interceptor (206), Sphere Air UAV Sea State 5 (204), Spear FALCL tethered EM release (205). API Server (220) outputs REST/JSON, DDS pub-sub, STANAG 4586 UCS at 10Hz tracks. Integration paths: Epirus Leonidas HPM (230), Anduril Lattice AI C2 (231), DFT Seraphim sensor fusion (232), any STANAG 4586 UCS compliant system (233).
- ›Sorcerer unified C2 — 2 to 128 drones
- ›T1 Autonomous / T2 Edge AI / T3 Hardware Override
- ›STANAG 4586 UCS API — 10Hz tracks, <15kbps acoustic
- ›Epirus Leonidas, Anduril Lattice, DFT Seraphim integration
Battery & Sealing Systems
Twist-lock cover (404) at 0° locked, 90° releases spring latch (405) ejecting battery module (401). Li-Ion 18650 cells, 400–600Wh. Pogo pin array (403) — 6 Au-plated spring-loaded contacts with ±5mm alignment tapers (407). Handle (402) recessed during operation, deployed for extraction. Full exchange operable with 5mm neoprene diving gloves. Exchange time under 90 seconds underwater.
- ›Sub-90 second underwater battery exchange
- ›400–600Wh Li-Ion 18650 module
- ›6-pin Au-plated pogo array — ±5mm insertion tolerance
- ›Operable with 5mm neoprene diving gloves
FALCL Tethered Platform
Quad-rotor FALCL drone body (901) — CFRP clamshell IP68 / Sea State 5. Four Al 6061-T6 rotors (911) machined from solid billet, 400–500mm diameter each, <10mm gap zero-gap geometry (902) — no safe ingress point for any aerial target entering the rotor disk. Upper guard structure (905) prevents tether/rigging ingress and preserves kinetic engagement plane (907). Tether attach point (906) EM latch. 150m tethered envelope (918), 30m hover altitude (917). Reserve battery (915) 10 min full-power post-release. Dual-power: vessel electrical via tether (913) during normal ops, reserve battery switches over <20 microseconds on EM latch release.
- ›Zero-gap rotor geometry — no safe ingress for any aerial target
- ›Al 6061-T6 solid billet rotors — full KE transfer on contact
- ›Reusable: blade geometry survives consumer drone contact
- ›<20µs tether-to-battery switchover — zero brownout on release
Sorcerer AI Control System
Three-tier hierarchy — Tier 3 Human Operator Override (300) [HIGHEST AUTHORITY]: physical guarded switch on packout case (301), mechanical relay on vehicle command bus (302), disconnects autopilot output with joystick direct to motor controller (303), cannot be defeated by any software state including AI malfunction (304). DoD Dir. 3000.09 compliant. HW Interrupt Path (330) bypasses Tiers 1 and 2 — fail-secure: power loss defaults to hardware-disconnected autopilot state. Tier 2 Edge AI Inference (310): 8 TOPS minimum (311), multi-modal sensor fusion with confidence scores (312), autonomous target bracketing on confidence threshold (313), engagement recommendations only — NO autonomous lethal authority (314). Tier 1 Autonomous Pattern Execution (320): formation patterns (321), charge-rotation scheduling (322), return-to-rack protocols (323), NO threat engagement authority (324). API Server (810) outputs UUID · WGS84 position · velocity vector · heading · classification type · confidence score at 10Hz. Auth: mutual TLS · AES-256 · operator IP whitelist. CRITICAL: API publishes engagement RECOMMENDATIONS only — SETEC Sphere never autonomously commands any third-party defeat system.
- ›Tier 3 mechanical relay — cannot be defeated by any software state
- ›Fail-secure: power loss defaults to hardware-disconnected autopilot
- ›Tier 2 engagement recommendations only — NO autonomous lethal authority
- ›API: mutual TLS · AES-256 · 10Hz WGS84 tracks · STANAG 4586 UCS
Spear Water Interceptor
CFRP body (608) IP68 rated. Forward shredder rotor (600) Al 6061-T6. Nose cone (605) Al cube payload 200–400 units, 200–400g total — controlled fracture body (614) with engineered break points producing large slow fragments on impact. CG loaded (606) 20–25% forward of ACP for terminal dive stability. Three flight modes: Mode 1 Cruise (610) — aft motor active, fwd rotor feathered, sensor drones guiding; Mode 2 Terminal (611) — triggered at 50m threshold, fwd rotor spins 0→max RPM in 2 sec; Mode 3 Engagement (612) — fwd rotor max RPM, kinetic mass impact + rotor shred + cube fragmentation. No explosive compounds (613). Population density mode (615).
- ›Three-mode propulsion: Cruise → Terminal (50m) → Engagement
- ›Forward rotor 0→max RPM in 2 seconds at terminal threshold
- ›Al cube nose cone — 200–400 controlled fracture fragments
- ›No explosive compounds — pure kinetic engagement
Sea Shack Command System
20ft ISO container command and control system with climate-controlled operator room, integrated storage, and real-time operator welfare monitoring. Language-barrier-free status indicator system readable by any crew member. Active threat Red/Green flash with audible claxon.
- ›Crane-loadable ISO container — no permanent installation
- ›Traffic light status system — language independent
- ›Connects to any vessel/facility CCTV
- ›Active threat distinct alert state
Sentry Land Defense
Protected facility (1000) — oil refinery / LNG terminal / FOB / embassy. Four-corner FALCL deployment (1004a–d) NW/NE/SW/SE at 150m engagement envelope each (1006). Overlapping envelopes = zero gap (1007). Sea Shack C2 container (1002) + Central Power Node (1003) at facility center. 12x Sphere Air sensor drones (1008) — 6 active / 6 charging. Dual-type architecture (1009): Sphere Air detects/classifies/tracks — NEVER engages directly; Spear FALCL receives target data/intercepts — NEVER performs independent sensing. No permanent installation required. Claims 71 (land perimeter), 72 (multi-corner overlapping envelopes), 73 (relocatable container-based defense), 79 (dual-type drone architecture).
- ›4x FALCL × 150m radius — overlapping envelopes, zero gap
- ›Dual-type: Sphere Air sensors + Spear FALCL kinetic — strict role separation
- ›Sea Shack C2 + Central Power Node — single cable pull to center
- ›Oil refineries · LNG terminals · FOBs · Embassies · Data centers
Intercept Doctrine
Claim 80 — Dynamic Sensor Channeling: >90 mph detection threshold (1307) triggers immediate reposition of all available sensor drones to both sides of threat path axis (1304). Sequence: T+0 threat detected → T+0.2s Sorcerer initiates channeling → T+1s sensors reposition → T+2s channel corridor established → T+3s trajectory refined, intercept data ready. Triangulation from both sides = velocity + heading to 3-decimal accuracy = intercept net within 8ft of predicted impact. Shahed-class 130 mph approach: 3–4 seconds to impact at 150m — channeling extends effective reaction time 3–5x. Claim 81 — Multi-FALCL Formation Intercept Net: Sorcerer calculates position = current_pos + (velocity × 2sec), places 4x FALCL (1403a–d) at that computed intercept point (1402) T+2s ahead of threat. 6–8ft blade net (1404) in flight path — at 130 mph threat travels 8ft in 0.04 seconds, no precision aiming required. Threat kinetic energy (1408) does the work. Claim 82 — Trajectory-Based Doctrine vs. Pursuit: prior art pursuit doctrine requires interceptor speed > threat speed — fails against Shahed-class. SETEC doctrine: interceptors positioned AT threat's future location, threat flies INTO the interceptors. Works against any threat speed.
- ›T+3s from detection to intercept-ready — channeling extends reaction time 3–5x
- ›Triangulation both sides of flight path — trajectory to 3-decimal accuracy
- ›4x FALCL simultaneous release — 6–8ft blade net at computed intercept point
- ›Trajectory-based doctrine — works against any threat speed, no pursuit required
// Legal Notice
All systems, architectures, methods, and designs described herein are the intellectual property of SETEC Astronomy LLC. Patent applications have been filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. All rights reserved.
Patent Pending · Conceived May 6, 2026 · Travis Martin, Inventor · SETEC Astronomy LLC · Norman, Oklahoma
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