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US 11,447,245 B2Granted
Drone-based goods transportation
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsCynthia M. Neubecker, Somak Datta Gupta, Brad Alan Ignaczak
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Abstract
A container includes a transportation section and a drone section. The drone section has a drone place holder and a door. The drone place holder is accessible when the door is in an open position. The container includes a processor that is programmed to actuate the door to the open position, actuate a drone, fittable in the drone place holder, to fly out of the container, and actuate the drone to transport the container to a destination.
Claims19
A container, comprising:
- a transportation section;
- a drone section having a drone place holder and a door, wherein the drone place holder is accessible when the door is in an open position;
- and
- a processor, programmed to:
- actuate the door to the open position;
- actuate a drone, fittable in the drone place holder, to fly out of the container;
- and actuate the drone to transport the container to a destination.
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A system, comprising:
- a storage apparatus;
- a plurality of containers fittable in the storage apparatus;
- and
- a processor programmed to:
- select one of the plurality of containers;
- and
- actuate a drone disposed inside the selected container to transport the selected container from the storage apparatus to a destination.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.