US Patent Issued to Tomahawk Robotics on Aug. 4 for "Universal multimodal payload control" (Florida, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,372, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Tomahawk Robotics Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Universal multimodal payload control" was invented by Michael W. Holt (Smyrna, Ga.), William S. Bowman (Melbourne, Fla.), Matthew D. Summer (Melbourne, Fla.) and Mark B. Moffett (Grant, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for a payload management system that may detect that a payload has been attached to an uncrewed vehicle and determine whether the payload is a restricted payload or an unrestricted payload. Based on determining that the payload is an unrestricted payload, the payload management system may establi...