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

Claim 0:
1. A method for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating at a terminal area from which the UAVs are staged, the method comprising:
charging a plurality of the UAVs on charging pads disposed in a staging array at the terminal area, 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, wherein the peripheral loading pads also include charging circuitry for charging the UAVs.