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Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2022
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla, Visakhapatnam, IN;

Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Kolkata, IN;

Akash U. Dhoot, Pune, IN;

Bhavya Pochiraju, Hyderabad, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 53/31 (2019.01); B60L 53/16 (2019.01); B60L 53/30 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 53/31 (2019.02); B60L 53/16 (2019.02); B60L 53/305 (2019.02);
Abstract

A mobile charging station for transporting and recharging multiple UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), typically small UAVs, with the charging station, itself, being in the form of a carrier UAV. By transporting smaller passenger UAVs in, or on, the larger carrier UAV: (i) the smaller UAVs effectively have a longer range because they can be taken part, or even most, of the way to a target destination by riding in, or on, the larger carrier UAV; (ii) the passenger UAVs can have their electrical batteries re-charged; (ii) the passenger UAVs can have their batteries replaced; and/or (iv) the passenger UAVs can have their hydrogen fuel cells recharged with hydrogen (for examples, by replacement of the fuel cell or by pumping hydrogen into the existing fuel cell.


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