US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Flying charging station for transporting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,277, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Flying charging station for transporting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)" was invented by Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Akash U. Dhoot (Pune, India) and Bhavya Pochiraju (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile charging station for transporting and recharging multiple UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), typically small UAVs, with the charging station, itself, being in the form of a carrier UAV. By transporting smaller passenger UAVs in, or on, the larger carrier UAV:...