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Systems and methods for validating products to be delivered by unmanned aerial vehicles

  • US 10,586,202 B2
  • Filed: 07/30/2018
  • Issued: 03/10/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for validating products to be delivered to customers via unmanned aerial vehicles, the system comprising:

  • at least one unmanned aerial vehicle including;

    a receptacle configured to retain at least one product after the at least one product is loaded therein;

    at least one sensor configured to detect a physical characteristic of the at least one product;

    an electronic database including data indicating predefined physical characteristic information associated with the at least one product, the predefined physical characteristic information corresponding to the at least one product when in a new condition and undamaged; and

    a processor-based computing device in communication with the at least one sensor and the electronic database, the computing device being configured to;

    obtain data indicating actual physical characteristic information associated with the at least one product, the actual physical characteristic information corresponding to the at least one product when detected by the at least one sensor; and

    based on the obtained data, to;

    compare the data indicating the actual physical characteristic information associated with the at least one product detected by the at least one sensor to the data stored in the electronic database indicating the predefined physical characteristic information associated with the at least one product in order to validate that the at least one product detected by the at least one sensor is in a new condition and undamaged;

    restrict the at least one unmanned aerial vehicle from delivering to a customer the at least one product detected by the at least one sensor in response to a determination, by the computing device, that the at least one product is not in the new condition or is in a damaged condition; and

    prior to the at least one product being loaded into the receptacle of the at least one unmanned aerial vehicle, and, in response to an unsuccessful validation of the actual physical characteristic information associated with the at least one product detected by the at least one sensor that the at least one product is in the new condition or is undamaged, transmit an electronic error message to an electronic device of a worker of a facility where the at least one product is being loaded into the at least one unmanned aerial vehicle.

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