US Patent Issued to TOWER SEMICONDUCTOR on May 5 for "Apparatus, system, and method of charging a battery of an aerial vehicle" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,562, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOWER SEMICONDUCTOR LTD. (Migdal Haemek, Israel).

"Apparatus, system, and method of charging a battery of an aerial vehicle" was invented by Yakov Roizin (Afula, Israel), Evgeny Pikhay (Haifa, Israel) and Niv Mizrahi (Kiryat Bialik, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include a processor configured to process photodiode signal information, which corresponds to a plurality of photodiodes of an aerial vehicle, for example, to identify a plurality of electric currents, which may be generated by the plurality of photodiodes based on energy of a light beam to charge a battery of the a...