US Patent Issued to Workhorse Group on July 22 for "Flying vehicle systems and methods" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,494, issued on July 22, was assigned to Workhorse Group Inc. (Loveland, Ohio).

"Flying vehicle systems and methods" was invented by Jay Ratajczak (Maineville, Ohio), Wei Wei (Mason, Ohio), Haonan Zhang (Mason, Ohio), Thaddeus Bort (Loveland, Ohio) and Scott Wilson (Maineville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method according to certain embodiments generally involves operating a system including an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a base station. The base station includes a nest including an upper opening having an upper opening diameter and a lower opening having a lower opening diameter less than the upper opening diameter. T...