US Patent Issued to AeroVironment on June 9 for "Autorotating payload delivery device" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,569, issued on June 9, was assigned to AeroVironment Inc. (Arlington, Va.).

"Autorotating payload delivery device" was invented by Joel Ifill (Los Angeles), Zach Taylor (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Jason Litzinger (Canyon Lake, Calif.), Philip Stahlhuth (Pasadena, Calif.) and Marc Berte (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A payload delivery device configured to deliver an aircraft deployed payload along a flight path to a predetermined landing destination includes a support member configured to be removably attached to the payload, a flight control and navigation system module configured to control orientation of the plurality o...