US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on June 24 for "Storage device, unmanned aerial vehicle, and system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,015, issued on June 24, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Storage device, unmanned aerial vehicle, and system" was invented by Atsushi Aratake (Tokyo), Yosuke Sakurada (Tokyo), Daisuke Uchibori (Tokyo), Yujin Hamano (Tokyo) and Kazuaki Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device (10) that stores an unmanned aerial vehicle (30) includes a main body portion (20) having a magnet or a magnetic body (111, 112) for applying a magnetic force to the unmanned aerial vehicle (30) provided with a magnet (121, 122) on an upper surface."

The patent was filed on Dec. 24, 2020, under Application No....