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U.S. aerospace company Textron Inc. won a $279 million verdict on Friday against Chinese drone maker DJI Technology, persuading a federal jury in Waco, Texas that DJI willfully infringed its patents. The jury agreed with subsidiary Textron Innovations Inc after a week-long trial that DJI's drones violate
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Global supplier of airborne ice protection solutions, CAV Ice Protection Limited, has filed for a patent for an anti-icing solution for small uncrewed aerial systems (sUAS) that it claims could revolutionise commercial drone use in cold climates. Engineers at the County Durham based manufacturer, which is part of the CAV
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BMT, an international design, engineering, science, and risk management consultancy, has announced that it has been granted a patent by the U.K. Intellectual Property Office for a novel concept called ‘SPARROW’, an autonomous ‘air-ground payload transfer device’ with truly disruptive capabilities for drone delivery applications. Phil Metcalfe, Regional Business
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With Apple introducing Emergency SOS via Satellite for iPhone 15, Apple patents regarding communications, including non-terrestrial network networks NTN, all of a sudden takes on new interest, especially for wireless system engineers and other communication specialists. On March 2nd. the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from
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“When a company wants to start commercialising drone technology, the patent landscape can be thought of as a minefield.”Drone technology has taken to the skies over the past twenty years in multiple areas—from applications to the military. It seems like everyone wants their piece of the skies including
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Hoverfly Technologies Inc. announced that it has been issued U.S. Patent No. 11,518,542 from the U.S. Patent Office for the "Landing Structure for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle." One of the largest concerns with UAVs has been determining where the system will land when it
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Ford Motor Company has filed a patent for drone flights over public roadways, Ford Authority has learned. The patent was filed on June 9th, 2021, published on December 15th, 2022, and assigned serial number 0398932. The Ford Authority Take In recent months, Ford has filed a host of patents related
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Woolpert has been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its “Airborne Topo-Bathy Lidar System and Methods Thereof.” A lidar sensor system was developed by a multidisciplinary research and development team incorporating these technologies that enable the collection of high-resolution topographic and bathymetric data at
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Drone Delivery Canada Corp. announced that on November 23, 2021, the United States Patent Office granted a patent 11,181,933 for DDC’s patent application titled ‘Location for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Landing and Taking Off’. This patent is related to DDC’s previously granted U.S. patents 10,625,
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On November 11, the US Patent & Trademark Office published two patent applications from Apple that relate to drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The first covers a system and method for pairing/unpairing UAVs to/from UAV controllers. Unmanned aerial vehicles, also referred to as drones, may be characterized
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In March Patently Apple posted an IP report titled "Apple has Won a Patent relating to Drones, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," and more importantly relating to drones connected to cellular networks. Below is Apple's patent FIG. 9 from the March patent that illustrates a three-dimensional space for
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DJI Technology, the world’s largest maker of drones, and rival Autel Robotics have settled a five-year-old patent-infringement dispute on the eve of a trial in Delaware, according to people familiar with the agreement. The jury trial set to start Monday was canceled on Thursday, according to court docket in