US Patent Issued to National Formosa University on Aug. 12 for "UAV having multifunctional leg assembly and its charging system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,569, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to National Formosa University (Yun-Lin Hsien, Taiwan).

"UAV having multifunctional leg assembly and its charging system" was invented by Jie-Tong Zou (Yun-Lin Hsien, Taiwan) and Jean-Shyan Wang (Yun-Lin Hsien, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle having multifunctional leg assembly and charging system, including unmanned aerial vehicle and charging station. The UAV includes obstacle avoidance sensors, flight control module, first signal processing module, electric undercarriage and power charge/storage module. The charging station includes power...