ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,414, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Unmanned aerial vehicle base station and unmanned aerial vehicle system" was invented by Li Qiu (Guangdong, China), Di Zhang (Guangdong, China), Yi Liu (Guangdong, China), Chi Zhang (Guangdong, China) and Pan Zhang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station may include a base body, a landing pad, and a base station opening and closing structure. The base station opening and closing structure may include an open state and a closed state. In the open state, the base station opening and closing structure may provide a landing spac...