ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,175, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to METAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
"Drone buoyancy device" was invented by Shun-Yuan Cheng (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Wei-Ching Wang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Shuo-Yen Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Wei-Te Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drone buoyancy device includes a storage unit and an airbag unit. The storage unit includes a wrapping member that defines a receiving space and that has an opening being in spatial communication with the receiving space and being closable, and a fastening member that is disposed on the wrapping member, that is o...