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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.

Patent No.:

US 10443262 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 05, 2018

Intelligent pod management and transport

Applicant:

Michael Steward Evans, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventor:

Michael Steward Evans, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorneys:

Donald R. Boys

Central Coast Patent Agency LLC

Primary Examiner:

Richard R Green

Assistant Examiner:

Brady W Frazier

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E04H 14/00 (2006.01); B64F 1/31 (2006.01); B60P 3/00 (2006.01); B60L 53/14 (2019.01); B60L 53/30 (2019.01); B61B 1/02 (2006.01); B62D 31/00 (2006.01); B62D 31/02 (2006.01); B62D 47/00 (2006.01); B61B 3/02 (2006.01); B61B 13/00 (2006.01); B60M 1/30 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E04H 14/00 (2013.01); B60L 53/14 (2019.02); B60L 53/30 (2019.02); B60P 3/007 (2013.01); B61B 1/02 (2013.01); B61B 3/02 (2013.01); B61B 13/00 (2013.01); B62D 31/003 (2013.01); B62D 31/025 (2013.01); B62D 47/006 (2013.01); B64F 1/31 (2013.01); B60L 2200/10 (2013.01); B60L 2200/24 (2013.01); B60L 2200/26 (2013.01); B60L 2260/32 (2013.01); B60M 1/30 (2013.01); H02J 7/0027 (2013.01);
Abstract

An exchange station has openings for drones, a passenger check-in/check-out bay for processing passengers, a drone connect/release bay, having apparatus adapted to manage passenger pods mounted on smart chassis, and a computerized control system in wireless communication with control circuitry in the drones and smart chassis, guiding smart chassis with mounted passenger pods and drones, to make the exchange of pods from the smart chassis to drones. A passenger entering the passenger check-in bay is loaded into a pod mounted on a smart chassis, the pod with passenger is transported to the drone-connect/release bay, and the pod is there joined to a bare drone and disconnected from the smart chassis, the drone leaving with the passenger pod to a destination, and the smart chassis traveling away from the drone connect-release bay.

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