US Patent Issued to SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Nov. 3 for "Unmanned aerial payload delivery system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,415, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Antonio).

"Unmanned aerial payload delivery system" was invented by Andrew Moore (San Antonio) and Jennifer May-Pyatte (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drone with capability to passively deliver a payload to a delivery site. The drone is an unmanned aerial system that includes a container suspended below a main body of the system by way of at least one line. The container may interface a surface at the delivery site to passively deliver the payload. This may be achieved through a passive delivery mechanism that includes one of an actuator to trigger ...