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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2021
Kitty Hawk Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Benjamin Otto Berry, Mountain View, CA (US);
Graham Bowen-Davies, San Jose, CA (US);
Madeline Elliott Parker, San Francisco, CA (US);
Cameron Robertson, San Mateo, CA (US);
Christopher Scott Saunders, San Jose, CA (US);
Kitty Hawk Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A plurality of propellers generate vertical thrust at least some of the time. An attachment sub-system detachably couples to a vertical connector, where a plurality of vertically-stacked multicopters are configured to detachably couple to the vertical connector in order to transport a load at a bottom end of the vertical connector. There is an opening in a vehicle frame that is configured to: (1) receive the vertical connector prior to the attachment sub-system detachably coupling to the vertical connector and (2) hold the vertical connector while the attachment sub-system is detachably coupled to the vertical connector.