116 patents
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Cryogenic liquid tank
31 May 22
A hydrogen storage tank for a hydrogen fueled aircraft.
Alexander N. Brooks, Bart D. Hibbs, David R. Thompson
Filed: 6 Mar 20
Utility
Disbursement system for an unmanned aerial vehicle
24 May 22
A dispersement system for a UAV is provided.
Lance Holly, William Donovan, Aaron Lessig
Filed: 10 Sep 21
Utility
Systems and devices for remotely operated unmanned aerial vehicle report-suppressing launcher with portable RF transparent launch tube
3 May 22
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launch tube that comprises at least one inner layer of prepreg substrate disposed about a right parallelepiped aperture, at least one outer layer of prepreg substrate disposed about the right parallelepiped aperture, and one or more structural panels disposed between the at least one inner layer of prepreg substrate and the at least one outer layer of prepreg substrate.
Carlos Thomas Miralles, Guan H Su, Alexander Andryukov, John McNeil
Filed: 3 Jul 20
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Methods and systems for retaining lateral control of an unmanned aerial vehicle during landing with leveled inboard propellers
5 Apr 22
Systems, devices, and methods including an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); one or more inner wing panels of the UAV; one or more outer wing panels of the UAV; at least one inboard propeller attached to at least one engine disposed on the one or more inner wing panels; at least one tip propeller attached to at least one engine disposed on the one or more outer wing panels; at least one microcontroller configured to: determine an angular position of the at least one inboard propeller; and send a signal to halt rotation of the at least one inboard propeller such that the at least one inboard propeller is held in an attitude that provides for clearance of the propeller blade to the ground upon landing.
Bart Dean Hibbs
Filed: 7 Dec 20
Utility
Unmanned aerial vehicle and method of operation
5 Apr 22
A method of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight includes providing horizontal thrust in-line with the direction of forward flight of the UAV (110) using at least one electric motor (120), providing primary vertical lift for the UAV (110) during the forward flight using a fixed and non-rotating wing (125), repositioning the at least one electric motor (120′) to provide vertical thrust during transition of the UAV (110) to vertical flight (A) for descent (E), landing the UAV (110) on a surface (270) using a vertical approach after the motor repositioning, and deploying an anchor (150) to secure the UAV (110) to a surface (270).
Christopher E. Fisher, John P. Zwaan, Marc L. Schmalzel, Steven Chambers, Justin McAllister
Filed: 19 Oct 12
Utility
Bi-stable, sub-commutated, direct-drive, sinusoidal motor controller for precision position control
1 Mar 22
An electric motor controller system for modulating requested motor torque via oscillating the instantaneous torque, including a bi-stable torque controller; a proportional-integral (PI) velocity controller a proportional-integral-differential (PID) position controller; and sinusoidal zero-velocity table mapping.
Michael Leonardi, William Nicoloff
Filed: 12 Feb 14
Utility
Survey migration system for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
22 Feb 22
A method of migrating unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations between geographic survey areas, including: uploading a first plurality of flight missions into a first UAV pod; deploying the UAV pod; autonomously launching the UAV from the UAV pod a plurality of times to perform the first plurality of flight missions; providing first survey data from the UAV to the UAV pod; autonomously migrating the UAV from the first UAV pod to a second UAV pod; receiving a second plurality of flight missions in a second UAV pod; providing the UAV with one of the second plurality of flight missions from the second UAV pod; autonomously launching the UAV from the second UAV pod a plurality of times to perform the second plurality of flight missions; and providing a second survey data from the UAV to the second UAV pod; where the autonomous migrating of the UAV to accomplish the first and second survey data happens autonomously and without active human intervention.
Christopher Eugene Fisher, Jason Sidharthadev Mukherjee, William Arden Lott, Eric James Aagaard
Filed: 5 May 20
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Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) winged air vehicle with complementary angled rotors
15 Feb 22
Systems, devices, and methods for an aircraft having a fuselage; a wing extending from both sides of the fuselage; a first pair of motors disposed at a first end of the wing; and a second pair of motors disposed at a second end of the wing; where each motor is angled to provide a component of thrust by a propeller attached thereto that for a desired aircraft movement applies a resulting torque additive to the resulting torque created by rotating the propellers.
Henry Thome Won, Quentin Lindsey
Filed: 26 Jun 19
Utility
UAV having hermetically sealed modularized compartments and fluid drain ports
25 Jan 22
In one possible embodiment, an amphibious unmanned aerial vehicle is provided, which includes a fuselage comprised of a buoyant material.
Pavel Belik, Thomas Szarek, Gabriel E. Torres, Vernon P. Fraye
Filed: 7 Apr 20
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Reconfigurable battery-operated vehicle system
11 Jan 22
A quadrotor UAV including ruggedized, integral-battery, load-bearing body, two arms on the load-bearing body, each arm having two rotors, a control module mounted on the load-bearing body, a payload module mounted on the control module, and skids configured as landing gear.
Christopher E. Fisher, Phillip T. Tokumaru, Marc L. Schmalzel, John Peter Zwaan, Jeremy D. Tyler, Justin B. McAllister, Gabriel E. Torres, Pavel Belik
Filed: 1 Jul 20
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Geographic survey system for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
4 Jan 22
A method of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operation, including: receiving from a customer a first data request, the first data request having: a first geographic coverage area; and a refresh rate for the first geographic coverage area; planning a first plurality of flight missions to accomplish the first data request; uploading flight missions data representing the first plurality of flight missions into a UAV pod; and deploying the UAV pod.
Christopher Eugene Fisher, Jason Sidharthadev Mukherjee, William Arden Lott
Filed: 26 Dec 19
Utility
Compressed motor winding
9 Nov 21
In one possible embodiment, a motor winding is provided having a high density multi-conductor wire bundle with a compacted Litz wire bundle.
Wally Ewald Rippel, Zaher Abdallah Daboussi, Bradford M. Hori, Scott Garret Berman, Bart Dean Hibbs
Filed: 14 Feb 20
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Methods and systems for cloud-based management of images captured by aerial vehicles
26 Oct 21
Systems, devices, and methods for receiving image data; transferring the captured image data to a server having a processor and addressable memory via a network-connected computing device; storing the captured image data on the server; generating captured image metadata based on the stored captured image data; providing access to the captured image data and captured image metadata via an image management component; displaying, by the image management component, the captured image data; and filtering, by the image management component, the captured image data based on the generated captured image metadata.
Nazlin Kanji, Greg Aragon, Carolyn Hall
Filed: 30 Jan 19
Utility
Multispectral filters
26 Oct 21
A method and system including: an aerial vehicle including: a first camera comprising a first sensor having at least red, green, and blue color channels, where the blue color channel is sensitive to near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths; a first optical filter disposed in front of the first sensor, wherein the first optical filter is configured to block wavelengths below green, between red and NIR, and longer wavelength NIR; a processor having addressable memory in communication with the first camera, where the processor is configured to: capture at least one image of vegetation from the first camera; provide red, green, and NIR color channels from the captured image from the first camera; and determine at least one vegetative index based on the provided red, green, and NIR color channels.
Phillip T Tokumaru
Filed: 28 Jan 19
Utility
Privacy shield for unmanned aerial systems
19 Oct 21
A system having: a processor and addressable memory, where the processor is configured to: receive a geographic data defining a selected geographical area; receive an operating mode associated with the selected geographical area, where the received operating mode restricts at least one of: a viewing of a UAV data and a recording of the UAV data by at least one user device; and broadcast the UAV data to the at least one user device based on the selected geographical area and the received operating mode.
Gabriel E. Torres, Steven B. Chambers, Carlos Augusto Coronado, Gordon Bryan Hudson, Peter De Baets
Filed: 20 Oct 14
Utility
Systems and devices for an RF signal carrying cable of a multi-pack launcher system
12 Oct 21
Systems, devices, and methods including a launch control box; a multi-pack launcher (MPL) box; and a cable connecting the launch control box and the MPL box, where the cable comprises: an outer jacket, a shielded braid, a first wire, a second wire, a third wire, and a fourth wire, where the first wire and the second wire are shielded by the shielded braid, where the third wire and the fourth wire are outside of the shielded braid, and where the third wire and the fourth wire act as an antenna.
Reza Miremadi
Filed: 9 Sep 20
Utility
Mounting system for mechanical-shock resistant printed circuit board (PCB)
12 Oct 21
A shock resistant fuselage system includes first and second fuselage side walls, each of the first and second fuselage side walls having a plurality of guide posts, and a printed circuit board (PCB) rigidly attached to at least one of the first and second fuselage side walls, the PCB having a plurality of guide slots, each of the plurality of guide posts slideably seated in a respective one of the plurality of guide slots so that elastic deformation of the PCB is guided by the guide slots between the first and second fuselage side walls.
William John Nicoloff
Filed: 24 Feb 20
Utility
Voronoi cropping of images for post field generation
5 Oct 21
A method and system including: defining a geographic area; receiving a plurality of images; determining a plurality of image points; partitioning the geographic area into a plurality of image regions based on the plurality of image points; and stitching the plurality of images into a combined image based on the plurality of image regions.
Quentin Lindsey
Filed: 25 Jan 19
Utility
Disbursement system for an unmanned aerial vehicle
28 Sep 21
A disbursement system for a UAV is provided.
Lance Holly, William Donovan, Aaron Lessig
Filed: 2 Nov 16
Utility
Interactive weapon targeting system displaying remote sensed image of target area
14 Sep 21
Systems, devices, and methods for determining a predicted impact point of a selected weapon and associated round based on stored ballistic information, provided elevation data, provided azimuth data, and provided position data.
John C. McNeil, Earl Clyde Cox, Makoto Ueno, Jon Andrew Ross
Filed: 27 Dec 19