US Patent Issued to Venturi Astrolab on Dec. 2 for "Vehicular systems for retrieval, transportation, and/or deposition of payloads and methods thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,716, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Venturi Astrolab Inc. (Hawthorne, Calif.).

"Vehicular systems for retrieval, transportation, and/or deposition of payloads and methods thereof" was invented by Jaret B. Matthews (El Segundo, Calif.), Russell D. Billing (Long Beach, Calif.), Andrew J. Welter (Los Angeles) and Craig Western (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the disclosure are directed to vehicular retrieval, transportation, and/or deposition of payloads. In some embodiments, a vehicle is configured to identify and approach, via a plurality of propulsion components, a respective payload. In some embod...