Systems for autonomous item delivery

R Luckay, RE Dixon, G Cooil - US Patent 12,093,879, 2024 - Google Patents
Methods and systems for autonomous item delivery and/or pick up are provided. IN some
aspects, a mothership travels along an item route. One or more autonomous delivery …

Interactive transport services provided by unmanned aerial vehicles

J Lesser, M Bauerly, JR Burgess, M Cheng… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
Embodiments relate to a client-facing application for interacting with a transport service that
transports items via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). An example graphic interface may …

Pre-flight self test for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

G Salgueiro, CC Byers - US Patent 10,131,451, 2018 - Google Patents
In one embodiment, a controller instructs an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) docked to a
landing perch to perform a pre-flight test operation of a pre-flight test routine. The controller …

Vehicle and drone management system

SP Simon, WM Mays - US Patent 10,706,381, 2020 - Google Patents
The disclosure provides a system and method of delivering packages. The system may
include a plurality of land vehicles that transport a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles …

Systems and methods for drone dispatch and operation

H Donald, NG Jones, G Hicks - US Patent App. 15/482,147, 2017 - Google Patents
Described are systems, methods, and computer readable medium for drone dispatch and
operation. Exemplary embodiments provide a group of drones, a server in com munication …

Drone based delivery system using vehicles

S Ur - US Patent 10,789,567, 2020 - Google Patents
A method for determining a route for a drone to deliver a package from an origin to a
destination using vehicles that are not actively participating in a delivery of the package; a …

Autonomous robot delivery systems and methods

R Cantrell, H Donald, M Atchley - US Patent 11,348,057, 2022 - Google Patents
A distributed robotic delivery system includes a mobile application, a server, a dispatch
module, and a plurality of robotic delivery vehicles. The mobile application receives an item …

Managing drones in vehicular system

S Uçar, B Hoh, K Oguchi - US Patent 11,513,537, 2022 - Google Patents
In an example, a method may assign a first drone of a drone network a first task, the first task
may instruct the first drone to transport a first package to a first destination in a geographic …

High-efficiency drone management

IA Villa - US Patent 11,726,472, 2023 - Google Patents
Disclosed are embodiments for determining efficient utilization of drones. In some aspects, a
drone may be performing a task, and a new task may be identified. Whether the drone …

System and methods for simulations of vehicle-based item delivery

P Mitra, D Melcher, A Sharma, P Rao… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are dis closed for simulations of vehicle-
based item delivery. In some examples, a method can include generating a simula tion of at …