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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2016
Drone Delivery Canada Corp., Vaughan, CA;
Paul Di Benedetto, Vaughan, CA;
Gregory Colacitti, Vaughan, CA;
Drone Delivery Canada Corp., Vaughan, CA;
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.