Walmart's drone delivery plan includes blockchain tech

ronjor · May 30, 2017

By Kelly McSweeney for Robotics | May 30, 2017 -- 17:47 GMT (10:47 PD

Walmart's patent application reveals plans for a drone delivery service that uses blockchain technology to ensure that packages are dropped off in secure locations.
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guest · Aug 16, 2019

Another patent:
Walmart Wants To Use Blockchain To Power Drone Delivery System
August 16, 2019
https://inc42.com/buzz/walmart-wants-to-use-blockchain-to-power-drone-delivery-system/

Flipkart’s parent and a global ecommerce giant Walmart has filed a patent for a method of drone-to-drone communication using blockchain. The patent application titled ‘Cloning Drone Using Blockchain’ was filed by Walmart in January 2019, and has gotten published on Aug 8.

The patent has claimed a drone to drone communications method comprising of capabilities such as determination and encryption of the Drone A’s location which can be then stored in a block of blockchain.
Further, the method will also enable Drone A to detect if there’s a second drone in its proximity, for which it will retrieve the saved location details of Drone B from the blockchain block, and more.
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