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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2021
Zipline International Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Keenan A. Wyrobek, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Brendan D. Wade, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Zoltan Laszlo, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian Boomgaard, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Joshua Liu, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregoire Vandenbussche, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin Nalecz, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Radhika Gurumurthy, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Zipline International Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A docking system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) includes a docking housing that defines a docking compartment, and a docking assembly coupled to the docking housing and configured to suspend the UAV within the docking compartment. The docking assembly may include a guiding feature configured to receive a docking feature of the UAV and direct the UAV toward a first captured position. The docking assembly may further include an advancement assembly operatively coupled with the guiding feature and configured to move the UAV from the first captured position to a second docked position.