ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,017, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"UAV autoloader systems and methods" was invented by Andre Prager (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Marcus Hammond (Redwood City, Calif.), Kevin Jenkins (Dallas), Ivan Qiu (Redwood City, Calif.) and Jasper Lewin (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining, by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a position of an autoloader device for the UAV; based on the determined position of the autoloader device, causing the UAV to follow a descent trajectory in which the UAV moves from a starting position to a first nudged position in order to dep...