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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 21, 2016
Applicant:

Drone Delivery Canada Corp., Vaughan, CA;

Inventors:

Paul Di Benedetto, Vaughan, CA;

Gregory Colacitti, Vaughan, CA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/77 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01); G06Q 30/04 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G01C 21/00 (2013.01); G01C 21/20 (2013.01); G06Q 10/083 (2013.01); G06Q 30/04 (2013.01); G08G 5/0013 (2013.01); G08G 5/0026 (2013.01); G08G 5/0034 (2013.01); G08G 5/0069 (2013.01); G08G 5/0082 (2013.01); H04N 5/772 (2013.01); B64C 2201/128 (2013.01);
Abstract

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery system, for delivering articles between UAV zones has a computing system having a non-transient memory with executable instructions, the executable instructions including a flight management system to receive at a portal a delivery request to deliver an article from one zone to another. The Instructions are operable: to assign a UAV to the delivery request; if a UAV is not at a first zone, to dispatch a UAV to the first zone; to provide a flight path to the UAV,I at least part of the flight path being predetermined; to communicate the UAV flight path to the UAV; and to monitor the flight of the UAV from the first zone to the second zone and the delivery of the article. A method of planning a route for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is also provided.


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