ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,210, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo).
"Unmanned vehicle and delivery system" was invented by Daiki Tanaka (Tokyo), Toshiaki Tazume (Tokyo), Takayoshi Inuma (Tokyo), Asaki Matsumoto (Tokyo) and Masato Tani (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a delivery system S including an UAV 1 and a management server 2, the UAV 1 controls at least a position and/or an orientation of the UAV 1 so that a package placed in a release location and a peripheral region of the package fall within an angle of view of a camera. And then, the UAV 1 saves, as an image that proves delivery completion of the package, an image of ...