US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on Jan. 20 for "Payload retriever having multiple slots for use with a UAV" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,583, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Payload retriever having multiple slots for use with a UAV" was invented by Jasper Lewin (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Andre Prager (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ivan Qiu (Redwood City, Calif.) and Adam Woodworth (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A payload coupling apparatus having a housing comprising an outer surface extending around a perimeter of the housing, an upper portion above the outer surface and including a tether attachment point, and a lower portion below the outer surface; a first slot extending into the outer surface of the housing thereby...