ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,643, issued on July 22.
"Self-flying hands-free massage apparatus" was invented by Natalie Vidal (Jupiter, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-flying hands-free massage apparatus includes: a drone or quad-copter component, configured to autonomously fly and hover in air; multiple video cameras that capture live video of the surroundings; and a processor that performs real-time computer vision analysis of live video, to guide the apparatus at which directions to fly and where to remain hovering. The self-flying apparatus remains hovering approximately 50 to 100 centimeters from a Target Body-Region, such as shoulders or upper-b...