US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on July 8 for "Payload coupling apparatus for UAV and method of delivering a payload" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,312, issued on July 8, 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.), Trevor Shannon (Mountain View, Calif.), Zhefei Li (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kyle Liske (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle system including an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); a tether having a first end positioned in a winch system of the UAV and a second end secured to a payload coupling apparatus; a payload coupling apparatus receptacle positioned in the UAV; a payload having a handle, where...