In-flight UAV deployment and retrieval platform

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11994876
APP PUB NO 20220308596A1
SERIAL NO

17703811

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Methods, systems and apparatus for the deployment and retrieval of child UAVs from a V-TOL UAV Mothership. The Mothership may be piloted from a base station to one or more destination locations. At the destination location, one or more child UAVs may be deployed from a cargo bay module. The child UAVs perform tasks or complete a mission before coordinating their retrieval with the V-TOL UAV Mothership. The Mothership may plan an intercept course to retrieve the child UAVs in mid-flight or coordinate a hovering type retrieval with the child UAVs. The child UAVs are retrieved through an actuated frontal opening which provides access to the cargo bay without having to navigate through turbulence created beneath the hovering Mothership by the vertical thrust rotors.

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  • SIERRA NEVADA COMPANY, LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Clavreul, Jean-Francois Berkeley, US 11 72
Hilaire, Hervé Palo Alto, US 1 1
Morris, Stephen Sunnyvale, US 83 799

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