ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,965, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to JOBY AERO INC. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
"Network system including drones" was invented by Matthew Sweeney (San Francisco), Nikhil Goel (San Francisco), Mark Moore (San Francisco) and Jeffrey A. Holden (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network system provides delivery of items using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones. The network system uses an infrastructure of nodes that include landing pads to dock drones, as well as interfaces to provide and receive items from docked drones. Nodes may be stationary (e.g., fixed at a building rooftop or public transit station) or mobile (e.g....