US Patent Issued to Zipline International on June 24 for "System and method for preconditioning batteries of unmanned aerial vehicles" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,011, issued on June 24, was assigned to Zipline International Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"System and method for preconditioning batteries of unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Puneet Khattar (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preconditioning a battery for use in an unmanned aerial vehicle unmanned aerial vehicle may include fluidly coupling a fluid channel of a thermal management apparatus to an opening in fluid communication with the battery, determining a predicted temperature change of the battery as a result of the unmanned aerial vehicle traversing a predetermined flight path, determining...