Amazon's first Prime Air Delivery was made on December 7, 2016. The video covering that achievement is presented at the conclusion of this report. Earlier this month the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Amazon that sheds light on their current and future unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designs that are also known at quad and octo-copters that use a combination of lifting and thrusting motors. Amazon's patent claims don't limit Amazon's UAV's to being simple aerial craft but rather that their designs could further extend to being: "unmanned ground based vehicles, a water based vehicle, an unmanned water based vehicle, a spacecraft, or an unmanned spacecraft. The brain of their UAVs consists of modules for controls, routing, navigation, a payload engagement mechanism and more.
Amazon's patent FIG. 1 depicts a block diagram of a top-down view of an unmanned aerial vehicle with a pivot assembly in a lifting position; FIG. 6 depicts a block diagram of a side-view of a portion of a pivot assembly in a lifting position on a winged based UAV.
Amazon filed their patent application 20170101175 back in December 2016. You could delve into more details of the invention here. Another related patent was published last summer titled "Modular Air Deliver." You could check out that patent application here. In February Patently Mobile covered an Amazon granted patent regarding a drone landing dock atop a mobile Crossdock. Amazon's PrimeAir vehicle is noted in the video below.
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