US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Sept. 22 for "Unmanned delivery system and unmanned delivery method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,381, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Unmanned delivery system and unmanned delivery method" was invented by Yasuhiko Hashimoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned delivery system includes a self-propelled robot, an unmanned aerial vehicle which transports a package to an intermediate location on the way of delivering the package, and robot circuitry which controls the self-propelled robot so that the self-propelled robot delivers to a receiver's address the package which is unloaded at the intermediate location."

The patent was filed on Oct. 20, 2021, under Application N...