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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:
Dec. 05, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 13, 2022
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Hilliard Bruce Siegel, Seattle, WA (US);

Ethan Zane Evans, Sumner, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G05D 1/08 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G06Q 10/0835 (2023.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01); G01C 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0027 (2013.01); G01C 21/343 (2013.01); G01C 23/00 (2013.01); G05D 1/0225 (2013.01); G05D 1/0808 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01); G06Q 10/08355 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0207 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure is directed toward the use of two or more autonomous vehicles, working in cooperation, to deliver an item between a source location and a destination location. For example, an autonomous ground based vehicle may transport an item from a source location to a transfer location and an autonomous aerial vehicle will transport the item from the transfer location to the destination location. The transfer location may be at any location along a navigation path between the source location and the destination location. In some examples, the transfer location may be adjacent the destination location such that the autonomous aerial vehicle is only transporting the item a short distance.


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