ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,016, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to IDEAFORGE TECHNOLOGY PVT. LTD. (Navi Mumbai, India).
"Quick release device" was invented by Piyush Divyajit (Navi Mumbai, India) and Shubhankar Gokhale (Navi Mumbai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quick release device 100 for releasably coupling a pair of landing gears in a UAV includes a housing 400 having two slots 102 for receiving landing gears to be locked and released, and two snap levers 200 pivotally mounted in the housing 400 for movement between a lock position and a release position. The snap levers 200 include a locking feature 104 to engage with a corresponding feature on the...