US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on Dec. 30 for "Payload coupling apparatus for UAV and method of delivering a payload" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,228, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Payload coupling apparatus for UAV and method of delivering a payload" was invented by Andre Prager (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Trevor Shannon (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A payload coupling apparatus is provided including a housing, wherein the housing is adapted for attachment to a first end of a tether, a slot extending downwardly from an outer surface of the housing towards a center of the housing thereby forming a lower lip on the housing beneath the slot, and wherein the slot is adapted to receive a handle of a payload. A method...