US Patent Issued to CVS Pharmacy on Aug. 25 for "Methods and systems for pneumatic tube payload exchange, drone interaction, and payload delivery" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,350, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CVS Pharmacy Inc. (Woonsocket, R.I.).

"Methods and systems for pneumatic tube payload exchange, drone interaction, and payload delivery" was invented by Joshua Wright (Auburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drone delivery system and network includes host sites that are geographically arranged in a region having overlapping drone delivery ranges. A central flight server of the system determines delivery flight paths for a drone transporting a payload from an originating host site to another host site or a target site in the network. The flight range of the drone is extended based on a de...