US Patent Issued on July 15 for "Apparatus and method for balancing aircraft with robotic arms" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,611, issued on July 15.

"Apparatus and method for balancing aircraft with robotic arms" was invented by Alexander I. Poltorak (Monsey, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hover-capable flying machine such as a drone includes a robotic arm extending from the body, and an instrumentality for balancing the machine in response to disturbances such as those caused by picking up and dropping of the payload by the extended robotic arm. In embodiments, the end of the arm is equipped with a balancing rotor assembly that may provide lift sufficient to counteract the weight of the payload and/or of the arm. In embodiments, the machine's power...