US Patent Issued to Wing Aviation on Sept. 1 for "Payload retrieval apparatus having tether slot projection for use with a UAV" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,802, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Wing Aviation LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Payload retrieval apparatus having tether slot projection for use with a UAV" was invented by Jasper Lewin (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Andre Prager (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ivan Qiu (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A payload retrieval apparatus having an extending member having an upper end and a lower end, a channel having a first end and a second end and first and second inner edges defining a tether slot therebetween, wherein the tether slot is configured to guide passage of a tether coupled to a payload retriever suspended from a UAV when...