US Patent Issued to Starling on March 24 for "Ground station with autonomous battery swapping device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,623, issued on March 24, was assigned to Starling Inc. (San Diego).

"Ground station with autonomous battery swapping device" was invented by Omri Dayan (San Diego), Noy Kahalani (San Diego), Kavin Gustafson (San Diego) and Ido Gur (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground station of a UAS for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a landing pad assembly and a carousel assembly that allow for passive removal and replacement of a battery from and to a UAV. The UAS can include a battery replacement system that uses the mechanical movement of a landing pad of the ground station to control movement of a battery door of the la...