US Patent Issued to EXAIL on Nov. 18 for "System for handling marine or underwater drones by floating pontoon with removable drone interface module, adapted ship" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,052, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to EXAIL (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).

"System for handling marine or underwater drones by floating pontoon with removable drone interface module, adapted ship" was invented by Sebastien Grall (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system (1, 2) (1, 4) for handling marine (3) or underwater (5) drones, the system (1, 2) (1, 4) comprising a drone interface module (2, 4) and a floating pontoon (1) with two hulls (11) and an arch (10), the pontoon (1) is catamaran-shaped and delimits a downflooded reception space (17), the arch (10) comprises at lea...