ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,623, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Honeybee Robotics LLC (Longmont, Colo.).

"System and method of unloading a payload from an aerospace landing vehicle" was invented by Vishnu Sanigepalli (Los Angeles), Brian David Vogel (Simi Valley, Calif.), Justin David Lawrence (Culver City, Calif.), Trenton Mathison (Longmont, Colo.), Dara Sabahi (Longmont, Colo.), Dean Bergman (Altadena, Calif.), Devin Paul Anderson (Yucaipa, Calif.), Kris Zacny (Altadena, Calif.) and Joshua W. Erlich (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cargo unloading system and an aerospace landing vehicle is provided. The unloading system includes a carriage...