US Patent Issued to SPORTSBEAMS LIGHTING on July 14 for "Tethered UAV providing broad area lighting" (Oklahoma Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,660, issued on July 14, was assigned to SPORTSBEAMS LIGHTING INC. (Taylor, Texas).

"Tethered UAV providing broad area lighting" was invented by Kevin C. Baxter (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tethered UAV providing broad area lighting including a weatherproof drone; an electrically conductive tether; a high voltage power supply; an LED light engine which consumes at least 800 watts of power; an uninterruptible power source; and a voltage isolation stage. The weatherproof drone may or may not include a battery. The weatherproof drone, minus a battery, electrically conductive tether, and LED light engine weigh less than ...