Patents by Inventor Curt Eshbaugh

Curt Eshbaugh has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130240673
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus enabling multiple unmanned cargo deliveries in a single mission. An assembly having multiple hooks may be coupled to an unmanned vehicle via a cable. Prior to a mission originating at a starting location, multiple cargo loads may each be loaded on to a respective pallet, wrapped in a cargo delivery net, and attached to one of the hooks. A ground controller may instruct the unmanned vehicle to deliver the cargo loads to separate locations. The unmanned delivery vehicle may navigate to a first delivery location, perform delivery of a first cargo load by causing the hook on the assembly to release the first load, autonomously exit the first location and navigate to a second delivery location without returning to the starting location, and perform delivery of a second cargo load by causing the hook on the assembly to release the second load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Kevin Schlosser, Curt Eshbaugh, Joel Markham, Clifford T. Gunsallus, James W. Bacon