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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2022
Wing Aviation Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jasper Lewin, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Evan Twyford, Mountain View, CA (US);
Wing Aviation LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A UAV including a wing attached to a fuselage body, a rotatable cargo bay in the fuselage body, the cargo bay having an entrance for receiving the payload, an actuator in the fuselage body operable to rotate the cargo bay about a pivot axis into a first position where the entrance of the cargo bay is positioned above the fuselage body to allow for entry of the payload into the cargo bay, and the cargo bay extends through an opening in an upper surface of the fuselage body, rotatable into a second position where the entrance of the cargo bay is positioned within the fuselage body during transport; and rotatable into a third position where the entrance of the cargo bay is positioned below the fuselage body to allow for exiting of the payload, and the cargo bay extends through an opening in a lower surface of the fuselage body.