US Patent Issued to Rakuten Group on Feb. 10 for "Control device, unmanned aerial vehicle, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,404, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Control device, unmanned aerial vehicle, and control method" was invented by Tatsuhiro Seki (Tokyo), Asaki Matsumoto (Tokyo) and Takayoshi Inuma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned aerial vehicle includes: a mooring member capable of mooring an article; a linear member connected to the mooring member; a reel around which the linear member is wound. The unmanned aerial vehicle acquires information relating to wind strength around the article when the article is to be lowered from the unmanned aerial vehicle by controlling the reel; and controls the reel...