ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,566, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NANTES UNIVERSITE (Nantes, France) and BEE TECH (Nantes, France).
"Drone chassis" was invented by Pascal Casari (Saint-Nazaire, France), Thibault Berthiau (Vigneux de Bretagne, France) and Antoine Trichereau (Nantes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drone chassis including an external structure that deforms elastically in bending, and a set of cables connecting at least one support, intended to support a functional element of the drone, to the external structure. The set of cables includes elastic cables deforming elastically in traction under a tensile stress above a natural deformation...