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Aerial Drones

Thursday, May 4th, 2017

IBM Inventors Patent Invention for Transferring Packages between Aerial Drones

ARMONK, N.Y.– IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that its inventors have been granted a patent for transferring packages between drones during flight. The invention described in US Patent No. 9,561,852: In flight transfer of packages between aerial drones helps to extend the range of drones that are delivering packages from a warehouse to a customer’s