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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2015
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Danny Chan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eswarappa Channabasappa, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Namhoon Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Tzung-I (Ian) Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Ulf Jan Ove Mattsson, Saratoga, CA (US);
Joseph Christopher Modro, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ming Zheng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A plurality of UAVs may be operated in a fleet, each of the UAVs in the fleet being configured to work collectively to achieve one or more functions, such as to create a display or implement an antenna array. The fleet of UAVs may operate individually and/or may be coupled to one another to operate as a collective unit. In some embodiments, one or more UAVs in the fleet may operate individually, while two or more UAVs in the fleet may be connected to one another. In such embodiments, the individual UAVs and the connected UAVs may together comprise the fleet.