US 12,250,896 B2
Systems and methods for planting flora and fauna through drone delivery
Ernest Hale, St. Augustine, FL (US); and Gary Silverfield, Jacksonville Beach, FL (US)
Filed by Blue Ocean Quest 2, LLC, Jacksonville, FL (US)
Filed on Oct. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/501,021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/220,922, filed on Jul. 12, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/092,402, filed on Oct. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0117150 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. A01C 11/02 (2006.01); A01G 9/029 (2018.01); B64D 1/02 (2006.01); B64U 101/40 (2023.01); A01C 11/00 (2006.01); B64U 101/30 (2023.01); B64U 101/64 (2023.01)
CPC A01C 11/02 (2013.01) [A01G 9/0291 (2018.02); A01G 9/0299 (2018.02); B64D 1/02 (2013.01); A01C 11/003 (2013.01); B64U 2101/40 (2023.01); B64U 2101/64 (2023.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for aerial drone delivery of aquatic organisms, the system comprising:
an aerial drone;
an aquatic organism receptacle, wherein the aquatic organism receptacle comprises two or more container portions, wherein each of the two or more container portions is configured to house aquatic organisms, wherein each of the two or more container portions comprises at least one sidewall that prevents aquatic organisms within different container portions from physically contacting each other, wherein at least one of the two or more container portions comprises at least one aquatic organism, wherein consecutive container portions are laterally adjacent to each other;
a drone connector mechanism configured to connect the two or more container portions to the aerial drone;
a loading mechanism configured to move seedlings from a bottom portion of each of the two or more container portions, wherein the loading mechanism comprises two or more helical segments, wherein each of the two or more helical segments is configured below one of the two or more container portions; and
a deploying mechanism configured to receive seedlings from the loading mechanism and configured to deploy seedlings for planting, wherein the two or more helical segments are oriented to direct aquatic organisms toward a central portion of the deploying mechanism, wherein a bottom portion of the deploying mechanism comprises a plurality of openings configured to release a plurality of aquatic organisms from the deploying mechanism.