US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on Aug. 12 for "Payload retrieval apparatus with internal unlocking feature and security features for use with a UAV" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,539, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Payload retrieval apparatus with internal unlocking feature and security features for use with a UAV" was invented by Elizabeth Marshman (San Francisco), Jasper Lee Lewin (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Ivan Qiu (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A payload retrieval apparatus having a base, an autoloader assembly mounted to the base including: a payload holder configured to hold a payload for retrieval by a UAV, a channel coupled to the payload holder configured to direct a payload retriever suspended from the UAV to the payload holder, and a l...