US Patent Issued to Duplicent on July 14 for "Drone systems and methods" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,536, issued on July 14, was assigned to Duplicent LLC (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Drone systems and methods" was invented by Curren Krasnoff (Pacific Palisades, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft includes a body defining an interior compartment configured to hold at least one of a passenger and a payload, a battery system, a plurality of arms coupled to and extending from the body, and a plurality of propulsion devices configured to provide thrust to fly the aircraft. Each of the plurality of propulsion devices is coupled to a respective one of the plurality of arms. The plurality of propulsion devices are powered by the ...