ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,871, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SPEAR U.A.V LTD (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Drone arms locking/deployment mechanism" was invented by Gedalia Kuperman (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Shay Yitshak (Mishmar David, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a deployment mechanism for arms of a drone. This mechanism is particularly of relevance to a drone that is housed in a container and is configured to be launched therefrom, and therefore is required to have an efficient deployment mechanism for its arms to be deployed immediately after the launch. The deployment mechanism is biased to its deployed state and is retaine...