ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,542, issued on June 10, was assigned to FLYABILITY SA (Lausanne, Switzerland).
"UAV with protective outer cage" was invented by Guglielmo Milan (Teolo, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle comprising an outer protective cage, a propulsion system mounted inside the outer protective cage, a sensor support system fixed on the outer protective cage and a sensor system coupled to the sensor support system. The sensor system is coupled to the sensor support system via a load-limiting coupling mechanism that comprises a spring coupling exerting an elastic bias against the sensor system towards a normal operating p...