ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,033, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SoftBank Corp. (Tokyo).
"Power generation system and flight vehicle" was invented by Kohei Okada (Tokyo) and Marika Ueda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a power generation system including a photovoltaic unit arranged in a flight vehicle which provides a wireless communication service to a user terminal in a communication area formed over a ground, an electric storage unit which is connected to the photovoltaic unit and stores electric power generated by the photovoltaic unit, and a power conditioner which converts the electric power generated by the photovoltaic unit. The ele...