ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,105, issued on May 27, was assigned to Brookhurst Garage Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Base station for drone alignment" 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 on which the drone is to be landed. The base station may include a plurality of pushers slidable on the parking plate, the plurality of pushers configured to push the legs of the drone to move the drone towards a reference location on the parking plate. The base station may include a gripper carried by the parking plate, the...