US Patent Issued to Venturi Astrolab on Dec. 2 for "Interfaces for vehicular retrieval, transportation, and/or deposition of payloads and methods thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,809, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Venturi Astrolab Inc. (Hawthorne, Calif.).

"Interfaces for vehicular retrieval, transportation, and/or deposition of payloads and methods thereof" was invented by Jaret B. Matthews (El Segundo, Calif.), Russell D. Billing (Long Beach, Calif.), Andrew J. Welter (Los Angeles) and Craig Western (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the disclosure are directed to latching interfaces of a vehicle. In some embodiments, the vehicle comprises a latch system including a plurality of latches configured to selectively interlock with a corresponding first plurality of latch recept...