ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,575, issued on June 9.
"Precision automated air-to-ground delivery system and related methods" was invented by Christopher Kyle Turner (Clovis, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a unique system to deliver packages from aerial vehicles to the ground through the use of a sophisticated guidance system and impact-absorbing catching mechanism. The new systems and methods of the present invention provide package delivery from manned and unmanned aircraft that is fully automated and reliably accurate to deliver a package to a ground station operable to receive the package in the catching mechanism."
The pa...