US Patent Issued to Axon Enterprise on April 22 for "Drone pod for receiving, storing, and presenting a drone" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,901, issued on April 22, was assigned to Axon Enterprise Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Drone pod for receiving, storing, and presenting a drone" was invented by Patrick Smith (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Hans Moritz (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Mark Eastwood (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Brian Fairbanks (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Nathan Patulski (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Matthew Carver (Cave Creek, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drone pod may receive, stow, and launch a drone. The drone pod may include a housing, a canopy movably coupled to the housing, a platform movably coupled to the housing, and a drone bay. The drone pod may be configured to move the canopy...