Patent ID: 11905014
Assignee: WING AVIATION LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 13:
14. At least one non-transitory machine-accessible storage medium that provides instructions that, when executed by one or more machines, will cause the one or more machines to perform operations comprising:
charging a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on charging pads disposed in a staging array at a terminal area from which the UAVs are staged, wherein merchant facilities adapted for preparing packages for delivery by the UAVs are disposed peripheral to the staging array along one or more sides of the staging array; and
relocating the UAVs under their own propulsion from interior charging pads of the charging pads in the staging array to peripheral loading pads of the staging array as the peripheral loading pads are deemed available to receive the UAVs and the UAVs reach one or more threshold charge levels associated with readiness for delivery missions, wherein the relocating for a corresponding one of the UAVs is after the corresponding one of the UAVs receives an initial charge at one of the interior charging pads and prior to the corresponding one of the UAVs commencing one of the delivery missions.