ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,318, issued on April 15, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Base stations for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)" was invented by Patrick Allen Lowe (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yee Shan Woo (Campbell, Calif.), Yevgeniy Kozlenko (Mountain View, Calif.) and Christopher C. Berthelet (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station is disclosed for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The base station includes: an enclosure; a slide mechanism that is connected to the enclosure and which is repositionable between a retracted position and an extended position; and a cradle that is connected to the slide mechanism and which...