US Patent Issued to Skycart on Nov. 11 for "Detachable, self-balancing, multi-payload delivery pod for UAV" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,556, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Skycart Inc. (Tracy, Calif.).

"Detachable, self-balancing, multi-payload delivery pod for UAV" was invented by Lu Ru (Simon) Yuen (Tracy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detachable, self-balancing, pod for an unmanned aerial vehicle. The pod is configured to hold a plurality of different payloads, and to dynamically shift the location of these payloads in order to maintain an optimal center of mass (center of gravity) for the combination pod and UAV. The pod will have its own processor, as well as processor-controlled actuators to shift the payload location inside the pod to optimize ba...