ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,593, issued on June 9, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Charging hubs in base stations for unmanned aerial vehicles including fixed and movable brackets" 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 charging hub for a base station that is configured to receive an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) during docking. The charging hub includes a first bracket and a second bracket ...