{"id":41944,"date":"2016-01-27T09:45:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T07:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=41944"},"modified":"2016-01-27T09:45:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T07:45:04","slug":"google-files-patent-for-drone-delivery-receptacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/01\/27\/google-files-patent-for-drone-delivery-receptacle\/","title":{"rendered":"Google files patent for drone \u2018delivery receptacle\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A patent filed Tuesday in the United States by the company, a unit of Alphabet Inc, describes a \u201cdelivery receptacle\u201d designed to take packages from an \u201caerial delivery device\u201d for deposit to a secure location.<\/p>\n<p>The receptacle would use infrared beacons to connect with drones in the air and then guide them for delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The delivery receptacle would then take the package to a safe location such as a garage, according to the patent. The patent did not provide any details on the nature of the delivery receptacle.<\/p>\n<p>The filing provides a glimpse into a plan Google has been exploring since 2012. The project\u2019s leader, Dave Vos, said last November it could start delivering packages by 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed \u2018Project Wing\u2019, the initiative was announced in August 2014 with a YouTube video showing a field test conducted in Australia. In the United States, the company has conducted testing with NASA\u2019s AMES Research Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet and Amazon.com Inc are among a growing number of companies that are trying to make package delivery by drones a reality. But drone deliveries are not expected to take flight until after the Federal Aviation Administration publishes final rules for commercial drone operations, expected this year.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cRTNvWcx9Oo' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s secretive drone delivery project could include a component designed to store packages securely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":41951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[3163,3164,3165,2612,3166,3167],"class_list":["post-41944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-alphabet","tag-alphabet-drones","tag-alphabet-news","tag-google","tag-google-drones","tag-patents"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Alphabet","alphabet drones","alphabet news","google","google drones","patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}