US Patent Issued to Blue Vigil on March 24 for "Systems and methods for heat transfer in drones" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,620, issued on March 24, was assigned to Blue Vigil LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for heat transfer in drones" was invented by Robert Schumann (Reston, Va.), Gerard Eldering (Reston, Va.), Charles A. Eldering (Reston, Va.), Brandon Wernick (Reston, Va.) and Ted Markson (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, a drone-based system comprises: a base station, wherein the base station is configured to provide drone control and power; a drone; a tether connecting the base station to the drone and configured to provide the drone with the power from the base station; and a lighting system, operably at...