US Patent Issued to Skydio on June 16 for "Base stations for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,888, issued on June 16, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Base stations for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)" was invented by Patrick Allen Lowe (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yevgeniy Kozlenko (Mountain View, Calif.), Christopher C. Berthelet (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher Brian Grasberger (Burlingame, Calif.) and Roderick Donald Bacon (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of using a base station to charge an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is disclosed. The method includes: docking the UAV with a cradle of the base station; retracting the cradle into an enclosure of the base station via a slide mechanism; an...