US Patent Issued to Skydio on Sept. 1 for "Repositionable charging hubs in base stations for unmanned aerial vehicles" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,814, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Repositionable charging hubs in base stations for unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Jia Guo (Redwood City, Calif.), Yevgeniy Andreyevich Kozlenko (New Fairfield, Conn.), 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 charging base; a registration member that is connected to the charging base and which is configured for engagement with the UAV; and a charg...