ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,252, issued on April 29, was assigned to Brookhurst Garage Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Base station for drone battery swap" was invented by Young Joon Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Jessie Sanchez (San Jose, Calif.) and Jinkeun Kim (Seongnam, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station may include a parking plate for receiving a drone. The base station may include a gripper carried by the parking plate, the gripper configured to secure the drone in place at a parking position at the parking plate. The base station may include a plurality of chargers, each charger comprising a battery latch and a power port, the battery latch conf...