US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Docking stations for safely charging aerial vehicles" (Taiwanese, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,608, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Docking stations for safely charging aerial vehicles" was invented by Hong-Bin Koh (New Taipei, Taiwan), Oleksii Krasnoshchok (Gdynia, Poland), Chia-Wei Chan (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Ko Hsin Tsai (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A docking station includes a housing for accommodating an aerial vehicle, a charging contact for transferring electrical power to the aerial vehicle within the housing, and a sensor trigger for initiating or terminating the charging of the aerial vehicle. The sensor trigger includes an insertable element having an u...