ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,606, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Indoor aerial vehicles with advanced safety features" was invented by Matthew J. England (Santa Monica, Calif.), Ismail Gungor (Gdansk, Poland), Oleksii Krasnoshchok (Gdynia, Poland), Michael Kalajian (Calabasas, Calif.), Wen-Yo Lu (Pasadena, Calif.), Kevin Yu (Los Angeles) and Anay Joshi (Gdansk, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerial vehicle configured for operation within indoor spaces has a meshed construction with a housing defined by upper and lower sections having meshes provided above and below propellers and motors of the aerial vehicle. Th...