US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on March 25 for "Package retrieval system with funneling mechanism" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,124, issued on March 25, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Package retrieval system with funneling mechanism" was invented by Andre Prager (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ivan Qiu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jasper Lewin (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A payload retrieval apparatus including a support structure having an upper end and a lower end; a first sloped surface secured to the support structure and a second sloped surface positioned adjacent the first sloped surface; an opening between the first and second sloped surfaces leading to a space to allow a payload retriever attached to a tether su...