US Patent Issued on March 18 for "Docking station with retractable guide apparatus for unmanned aerial vehicle" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,280, issued on March 18.

"Docking station with retractable guide apparatus for unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Armin Strobel (St. John's, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a docking station for use with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The docking station has a retractable guide apparatus having a retracted state in which the retractable guide apparatus is retracted within the docking station and an expanded state in which the retractable guide is expanded outward from the docking station for physically guiding the UAV into the docking station. Given that the guide apparatus is retractable, the retractable...