ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,031, issued on April 21, was assigned to MatrixSpace Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).
"Drone system with distributed basing" was invented by Gregory Lester Waters (Los Gatos, Calif.), Adam George Mirza (Somerville, Mass.), Dan William Nobbe (Crystal Lake, Ill.), Matthew T. Kling (Uxbridge, Mass.), Gary Michael Shapiro (Wakefield, Mass.) and Alden Hayden Kelsey (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for basing drones is described. A network of geographically diverse hangars provides storage and charging locations as well as backhaul communications infrastructure and video monitoring. As drones are needed, a central c...