US 11,897,630 B2
Drone landing ground station with magnetic fields
Babak Rezvani, Tysons, VA (US); Donald Gerard Madden, Columbia, MD (US); Glenn Tournier, Tysons, VA (US); and Ahmad Seyfi, Tysons, VA (US)
Assigned to Alarm.com Incorporated, Tysons, VA (US)
Filed by Alarm.com Incorporated, Tysons, VA (US)
Filed on Oct. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/079,085.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/925,399, filed on Oct. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0122495 A1, Apr. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. B64U 70/97 (2023.01); B64F 1/12 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01); B64F 1/00 (2006.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 50/34 (2023.01); B64U 70/00 (2023.01)
CPC B64F 1/12 (2013.01) [B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64F 1/007 (2013.01); B64U 70/97 (2023.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 50/34 (2023.01); B64U 70/00 (2023.01); B64U 2201/10 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
13. A system comprising:
one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
determining that a drone is landing on a ground station and has not yet landed on the ground station;
in response to determining that the drone is landing on the ground station and has not yet landed on the ground station, determining, for a first magnetic component and a second magnetic component included in the ground station, to generate a first magnetic field at the first magnetic component at a first position in the ground station and to generate a second magnetic field with an opposing polarity at the second magnetic component at a second position in the ground station; and
generating, while the drone has not yet landed on the ground station and using the first magnetic component and the second magnetic component included in the ground station, the first magnetic field at the first magnetic component and the second magnetic field at the second magnetic component to enable:
a first corresponding magnetic component in the drone to couple by magnetic attraction with the first magnetic component using the first magnetic field, and
a second corresponding magnetic component in the drone to couple by magnetic attraction with the second magnetic component using the second magnetic field.