US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on July 1 for "Lifting system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,399, issued on July 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Lifting system" was invented by Mitsuaki Oshima (Kyoto, Japan), Takuya Takahama (Osaka, Japan), Fumio Muramatsu (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuma Kitazawa (Osaka, Japan), Hideki Aoyama (Osaka, Japan), Nobuaki Hayashi (Osaka, Japan), Gaku Sasaki (Osaka, Japan), Ryosuke Amagai (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Kato (Osaka, Japan) and Naoyuki Taniuchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lifting system includes an unmanned aerial vehicle, a thruster device, a first wire, a first reel, a second thruster device, a second wire, a second r...