US Patent Issued to Skyfront on July 15 for "Deployment mechanism, communication and operation for a host-parasite drone system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,525, issued on July 15, was assigned to Skyfront Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Deployment mechanism, communication and operation for a host-parasite drone system" was invented by Troy Mestler (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carrier aerial vehicle system includes a propulsion component configured to enable the carrier aerial vehicle system to be in flight. The carrier aerial vehicle system further includes a retention mechanism configured to allow a plurality of deployable parasite aerial vehicles to be coupled to the retention mechanism and released from the retention mechanism while the carrier aerial vehicle s...