ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,108, issued on May 27, was assigned to DPENDENT-DRONE INDEPENDENT SYSTEM SARL (Cully, Switzerland).
"Logistics station for drones" was invented by Krzysztof Krasnopolski (Alpnach Dorf, Switzerland), Loic Desfayes (Cully, Switzerland) and Lucien Moser (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a logistics station for drones, which can be adapted to different drones (12) and comprises at least one landing zone including means for holding a drone, a robot (30) for replacing the drone batteries and/or charging the drone, and a battery store (20)."
The patent was filed on Sept. 15, 2021, u...