US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Feb. 24 for "Commodities airlifting system and method of airlifting commodities" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,254, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Commodities airlifting system and method of airlifting commodities" was invented by Yasuhiko Hashimoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A commodities airlifting system includes a self-propellable robot, an aircraft which carries commodities and the robot, and a lowering/loading apparatus which at least enables the robot to get off on the ground from the aircraft and to get on the aircraft from the ground, in a state where the aircraft is landed or a state where the aircraft is hovering. The robot which got off on the ground from the aircraft agai...