US Patent Issued to Skydio on Sept. 8 for "Airframe attachments" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,980, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Airframe attachments" was invented by Thomas Skyler Sartorius (Los Angeles), Calder Richmond Hughes (Portland, Ore.), Julian Rene Alvarez (San Francisco) and Sean David-Andrew Belardo (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed here are airframe component assemblies including example embodiments with a root connected to an aircraft fuselage, a free section with a connection portion with holes, a slidable attachment section formed to fit between the root and the free section, and an elastomeric retention device coupled to the root and the slidable at...