US Patent Issued to Skydio on Oct. 27 for "Base station landing platforms including pulley assemblies for use with unmanned aerial vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,118, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Base station landing platforms including pulley assemblies for use with unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Patrick Allen Lowe (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher C. Berthelet (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Benjamin Scott Thompson (San Carlos, Calif.), Yee Shan Woo (Campbell, Calif.) and Joseph Tankeh (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A landing platform for a base station that is configured to receive an unmanned aerial vehicle. The landing platform includes: a drive member; alignment members that are operatively connected to the drive member such that m...