US Patent Issued to Essential Aero on Oct. 6 for "Method and system for autonomous collection of airfield FOD" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,562, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Essential Aero Inc. (Rocklin, Calif.).

"Method and system for autonomous collection of airfield FOD" was invented by Stephen S. Boyle (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system to collect foreign object debris (FOD) from hard surfaces on an airfield autonomously and without the need for operations personnel is disclosed herein. The system includes a mobile robot, a payload, a remote server, a management application and a FOD collection apparatus. The mobile robot includes a battery, an on-board computer, a transceiver and a tow mechanism. The payload is attached to the...