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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2025
Skydio, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Patrick Allen Lowe, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christopher C. Berthelet, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Maximilian Joseph Halper Krogius, San Mateo, CA (US);
Divyanshu Pachisia, San Francisco, CA (US);
Philipp Foehn, Foster City, CA (US);
Benjamin Scott Thompson, San Carlos, CA (US);
Yee Shan Woo, Campbell, CA (US);
Joseph Tankeh, Fremont, CA (US);
Andrew Xu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Skydio, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
A base station for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a reconfigurable landing platform including alignment members, which engage the UAV and are repositionable between extended and retracted positions, and a drive mechanism, which is connected (secured) to the alignment members to facilitate extension and retraction thereof. During retraction, the alignment members engage the UAV and generally align a power source on the UAV with a charging hub of the base station, which facilitates not only charging of the UAV but proper closure of the base station.