US Patent Issued on March 3 for "Package delivery using drones integrated with vehicle elevator unit" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,149, issued on March 3.

"Package delivery using drones integrated with vehicle elevator unit" was invented by Smruti Panigrahi (Novi, Mich.), Kurt Michael Lundeen (Novi, Mich.), Sam Hoff (Hazel Park, Mich.), Timothy Mark Feldkamp (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Yifan Chen (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery vehicle is disclosed. The delivery vehicle may include a vehicle elevator unit configured to move a bin to a bin pickup zone in a vehicle interior portion. The delivery vehicle may further include a vehicle drone unit disposed on a top portion of the vehicle elevator unit. The vehicle drone unit may be removably cou...