ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,934, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sintokogio Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).
"Pickup system and pickup method" was invented by Yoshikane Tanaami (Nagoya, Japan), Koji Ito (Nagoya, Japan) and Miyuki Hayashi (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the present invention provides a pickup system which makes, even in a case of transporting a load by using a single unmanned flying object, the unmanned flying object and the load less likely to tilt. A pickup system (1) includes: a holder (11) for holding a load (L); a measuring instrument (14) for measuring the position of the center of gravity of the holder (11) holding the ...