US Patent Issued to Ocean Alliance on Sept. 8 for "Flywheel stabilized system for deploying a free-falling payload from an aerial vehicle and methods of use thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,992, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Ocean Alliance Inc. (Gloucester, Mass.).

"Flywheel stabilized system for deploying a free-falling payload from an aerial vehicle and methods of use thereof" was invented by Jonathan Mark Godfrey (Natick, Mass.), Christopher James Zadra (Gloucester, Mass.) and Iain Alistair Eddy Kerr (Gloucester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for deploying a payload from an aerial vehicle onto a target surface includes a flywheel-stabilized delivery device that is detachably couplable to the aerial vehicle. The delivery device includes an axle, a flywheel, and a payload holder. The delivery devic...