US Patent Issued to Dragonfly Pictures on June 17 for "System and method for tethered unmanned aerial vehicle takeoff, landing, and storage" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,812, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dragonfly Pictures Inc. (Essington, Pa.).

"System and method for tethered unmanned aerial vehicle takeoff, landing, and storage" was invented by Joseph Pawelczyk (Philadelphia), Kris Auker (Springfield, Pa.), Trevor Stephens (Brookhaven, Pa.), Jeffrey Field (Springfield, Pa.) and James Megariotis (Delran, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of aligning an aircraft with a landing platform in motion comprises measuring a GPS heading with at least one GPS sensor positioned at a known location relative to the landing platform while the landing platform is in motion, measuring an orientatio...