ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,221, issued on July 8, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).
"Unmanned aerial vehicle and delivery system" was invented by Mitsuaki Oshima (Kyoto, Japan), Takuya Takahama (Osaka, Japan), Fumio Muramatsu (Kyoto, Japan), Nobuaki Hayashi (Osaka, Japan), Hideki Aoyama (Osaka, Japan) and Gaku Sasaki (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery device that travels along rails and delivers a package is provided. The rails include at least first and second rails. The delivery device includes: a main body; a connector that is configured to be connected to the rails, with the main ...