Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Targeted location product delivery systems and methods
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Application No.: US15343477Application Date: 2016-11-04
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Publication No.: US10535037B2Publication Date: 2020-01-14
- Inventor: Donald R. High , Nathan G. Jones , Chandrashekar Natarajan , John P. Thompson , Gregory A. Hicks
- Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Applicant Address: US AR Bentonville
- Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Current Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US AR Bentonville
- Agency: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q10/08
- IPC: G06Q10/08 ; G01S19/13 ; B64D47/08 ; B64C39/02

Abstract:
In some embodiments, systems, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to delivery packages using unmanned delivery aircrafts. Some embodiments include product delivery systems, comprising: a transceiver; a control circuit; a memory coupled to the control circuit and storing computer instructions that when executed by the control circuit cause the control circuit to perform the steps of: receive, from a customer, an authorization to deliver a product by an unmanned delivery aircraft; receive, from a portable user interface unit associated with the customer, global location information of a current location of the user interface unit and that designates a delivery location where the customer would like the product delivered; and initiate a delivery, by an unmanned delivery aircraft, of the product to the delivery location defined by the global location information received from the user interface unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170132566A1 TARGETED LOCATION PRODUCT DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS Public/Granted day:2017-05-11
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