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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2017
Uatc, Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard Brian Donnelly, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
James Lee Epifano, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jacob William Fischer, Wexford, PA (US);
Christopher Matthew D'Eramo, Bethel Park, PA (US);
David Patrick Rice, Wexford, PA (US);
UATC, LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A launch vehicle can include a mobility system, a launch system, and a computing system. The mobility system can be configured to travel to a general target location. The launch system can be configured to house a plurality of autonomous delivery vehicles assigned for transporting one or more deliverable items from the general target location to respective specific target delivery locations. The computing system can be configured to control launch of the plurality of autonomous delivery vehicles from the launch vehicle at a respective plurality of predetermined launch positions, each predetermined launch position associated with a corresponding launch time, and each autonomous delivery vehicle configured to travel from a launch position of the respective plurality of predetermined launch positions to a specific target delivery location of the respective specific target delivery locations and from the specific target delivery location to one or more predetermined landing positions.