Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Package delivery and reception with drones
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Application No.: US16205575Application Date: 2018-11-30
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Publication No.: US10526088B2Publication Date: 2020-01-07
- Inventor: Simone Bonazzoli , Marco Borgianni , Claudio Falcone , Alessio Fioravanti , Giuseppe Longobardi , Silvano Lutri , Luigi Presti , Paolo Salerno , Alessandro Tomasi , Francesca Ziantoni
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Michael A. Petrocelli
- Main IPC: B64C39/02
- IPC: B64C39/02 ; B64D1/08 ; G06Q10/00 ; G06Q10/08

Abstract:
A method for automatically delivering a physical mail includes receiving, by an unmanned aerial vehicle from an unmanned aerial vehicle management system, a delivery information, the delivery information includes information about a first secure mailbox and information about a second secure mailbox, the first secure mailbox being related to a first target user, delivering the physical mail to the first secure mailbox, and rerouting the unmanned aerial vehicle carrying the physical mail from the first secure mailbox to the second secure mailbox in response to the physical mail being delivered to the first secure mailbox.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190092470A1 PACKAGE DELIVERY AND RECEPTION WITH DRONES Public/Granted day:2019-03-28
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