US Patent Issued to Skydio on Sept. 15 for "Charging hubs in base stations for unmanned aerial vehicles including locking mechanisms" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,211, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Charging hubs in base stations for unmanned aerial vehicles including locking mechanisms" was invented by Jia Guo (Redwood City, Calif.), Yevgeniy Andreyevich Kozlenko (New Fairfield, Conn.) and George Oliver Turvey (Brookdale, 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 is repositionable between a retracted position and an extended position and includes a charger subassembly, which is configured for electrical connection to the UAV, and...