ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,387, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Brookhurst Garage Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Aerial drone and battery pack" was invented by Young Joon Kim (San Jose, Calif.) and Taewon Bae (Suwon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drone may include a drone body for carrying a battery pack. The drone may include a slide guide carried by the drone body, wherein the slide guide suspends from a surface of the drone body and creates a channel between the slide guide and the surface, and wherein the battery pack is slidable along the channel. The drone may include a slide-guide contact sensor carried on the surface of the drone body, the...