Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Power harvesting drone
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Application No.: US15476558Application Date: 2017-03-31
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Publication No.: US10427785B2Publication Date: 2019-10-01
- Inventor: Bradford H. Needham , Douglas Paul Bogia
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: B64C39/02
- IPC: B64C39/02 ; G06T7/70 ; H01L35/28 ; H02J7/02 ; H02N2/18

Abstract:
Various systems and methods for providing and deploying a power harvesting drone are described herein. A power harvesting drone includes a motor assembly; an energy replenishment coupler; a processor communicatively coupled to the energy replenishment coupler; and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to: operate the power harvesting drone to navigate a predetermined path; determine that a power supply used to operate the power harvesting drone is below a threshold of remaining power; identify an opportunistic energy source; and deviate from the predetermined path to replenish at least a portion of the power supply from the opportunistic energy source using the energy replenishment coupler onboard the power harvesting drone.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180281945A1 POWER HARVESTING DRONE Public/Granted day:2018-10-04
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