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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2019
Flirtey Holdings, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Matthew Sweeny, Reno, NV (US);
Michel Fathallah, Sydney, AU;
Tom Bass, Sydney, AU;
Kranthi Baddam, Sydney, AU;
John R. Foggia, Bristol, WI (US);
Flirtey Holdings, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a technique for landing a drone using a parachute. The technique includes a parachute deployment system (PDS) that can deploy a parachute installed in a drone and land the drone safely. The parachute may be deployed automatically, e.g., in response to a variety of failures such as a free fall, or manually from a base unit operated by a remote user. For example, the PDS can determine the failure of the drone based on data obtained from an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a magnetometer and a barometer of the drone and automatically deploy the parachute if any failure is determined. In another example, the remote user can 'kill' the drone, that is, cut off the power supply to the drone and deploy the parachute by activating an onboard 'kill' switch from the base unit.