METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING GOODS AND RETRIEVING REUSABLE TOTES FOR DRONE DELIVERY

Patent №

US 11,130,570

Granted

2021-09-28

Filed 2018

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES COPORATION

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16203969

A delivery system includes a drone including a prime mover, one or more rotors operatively connected to the prime mover, and a payload attachment system including a latch mechanism having a first selectively deployable clamp member and a second selectively deployable clamp member. The delivery system also includes a plurality of nested reusable totes. Each of the plurality of nested reusable totes includes a body having a base, sides, and a lid, at least two of the sides include a gripping feature. The selectively deployable clamp members are operable to engage with the gripping feature on one or more of the plurality of nested reusable totes.

PlanningB64U 10/13B64U 2101/64B64U 2201/20

AI classification

Planning0.99
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
AI hardware0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES COPORATION

assignment · 476240410

Assignors

GREEN, WILLIAM J., SPAULDING, SHARON T., COQ, MARC HENRI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

© 2026 NYSGPT2525 LLC