US Patent Issued to AeroVironment on Nov. 25 for "Ground support equipment for a high altitude long endurance aircraft" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,600, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AeroVironment Inc. (Arlington, Va.).

"Ground support equipment for a high altitude long endurance aircraft" was invented by Tom Millspaugh (Westlake Village, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for a ground support system for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) including: at least one handling fixture, where each handling fixture is configured to support at least one wing panel of the UAV; and at least one dolly, where each dolly is configured to receive at least one landing pod of the UAV, and where each landing pod supports at least one wing panel of the UAV; wher...