US Patent Issued to Airbus Defence and Space on May 19 for "Driverless ground vehicle for transmitting electrical energy to an aircraft" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,034, issued on May 19, was assigned to Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (Taufkirchen, Germany).

"Driverless ground vehicle for transmitting electrical energy to an aircraft" was invented by Peter Hunkel (Taufkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driverless ground vehicle for coupling to an aircraft has a vehicle base, a chassis with wheels that is arranged on the vehicle base, a control unit, a drive, an electrical energy store, and a coupling unit. The drive is coupled to the chassis for moving the wheels. The coupling unit is arranged on the vehicle base and carries an electrical line to be connected to the electrical energ...