US Patent Issued to IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY on Oct. 20 for "Drone mechanism including foldable arm and compressible gripper" (Idaho, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,703, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY (Pocatello, Idaho).

"Drone mechanism including foldable arm and compressible gripper" was invented by Taher Deemyad (Pocatello, Idaho), Kyler Bingham (Idaho Falls, Idaho), Matthew Hessler (Denver), Safal Lama (Pocatello, Idaho) and Christopher Zakrevski (Idaho Falls, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle includes a body. The body has an upper side and a lower side opposite the upper side. At least one rotor is coupled to the body to generate lift in an upward direction. A mechanism is mounted to the lower side of the body. The mechanism includes ...