US Patent Issued to Skydio on Sept. 16 for "Base stations for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,635, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Base stations for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)" was invented by Christopher C. Berthelet (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shreetej Varakantam Reddy (San Mateo, Calif.), Ioan Trayanov (San Francisco), Dylan Matthew Callaway (San Francisco) and Yevgeniy Kozlenko (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is disclosed that includes: an enclosure defining an internal cavity that is configured to receive the UAV; a door that is movably connected to the enclosure; actuators that extend between the door and the e...