ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,383, issued on June 30, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Base stations for unmanned aerial vehicles including repositionable charging hubs" was invented by Jia Guo (Redwood City, Calif.), Yevgeniy Andreyevich Kozlenko (New Fairfield, Conn.), Patrick Allen Lowe (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher C. Berthelet (Sunnyvale, Calif.), George Oliver Turvey (Brookdale, Calif.) and Yee Shan Woo (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that includes: a body; a landing platform that is supported by the body and which is configured to receive the UAV; and a charging hub th...