US Patent Issued to HITACHI INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS on June 24 for "Unmanned aerial vehicle support device and unmanned aerial vehicle support system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,013, issued on June 24, was assigned to HITACHI INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle support device and unmanned aerial vehicle support system" was invented by Kenji Takeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The consumption of stored energy by an unmanned aerial vehicle is reduced by raising the unmanned aerial vehicle through an unmanned aerial vehicle support device, and accordingly, the cruising distance is increased. An unmanned aerial vehicle support device 10 includes a loading unit 1 and a control unit that controls raising and lowering of the loading unit. The loading unit 1 is raised to ...