ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,900, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).
"Landing pad for aerial vehicles" was invented by Olegs Cevacins (Jurmala, Latvia), Davids Ezers (Liepaja, Latvia) and Ilja Nevdahs (Carnikava, Latvia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Landing pads for a drone. One of the landing pads can include a landing station configured to mount onto a non-horizontal surface; a landing area i) connected to the landing station and ii) with a first surface configured to receive a second surface of a landing gear of a drone; a fixed member i) connected to the landing station and that ii) includes a third surface near an end of the l...