 Pat and Professor here, Ford Motor Company has a new patent on a system of using drones to recharge a car's dead battery. You're stranded on the side of the road instead of calling AAA. Drones would be sent out with either a charging block or they would have an intricate series of wires that would descend from the drone for you to attach to the battery terminals and recharge your battery. The thing is that there's no working model or prototype and the patent office did away with these back in the 1800s. So today anyone can file a patent without producing an actual working model. So we don't really know how these are gonna work or whether Ford is even going to launch an actual product for this. Remember that patents don't require the patent holder actually make the idea. The patent just provides a monopoly.