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Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 10, 2014
Applicant:

X Development Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Daniel Martin Russell, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

X Development LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); G01P 5/00 (2006.01); B64D 47/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64D 47/08 (2013.01); G01P 5/00 (2013.01); B64C 2201/12 (2013.01); B64C 2201/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments relate to a container that can be installed at a remote location, detect a disaster event, and automatically deploy a UAV. In response to detection of the disaster event, such a container may be configured to: (i) determine whether or not one or more weather conditions affecting operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are conducive to deployment of the UAV to fly to the first geographic area, (ii) if the one or more conditions are conducive to deployment of the UAV, then deploy the UAV to fly to the first geographic area, and (iii) if the one or more conditions are not conducive to deployment of the UAV, then monitor the second data until it is determined that the one or more conditions are conducive to deployment of the UAV, and then deploy the UAV to fly to the first geographic area.


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