Amazon revealed Friday details in a patent application about what its delivery drones will be capable of once they get approval for commercial use.
Among the drones' features is one called "Bring It To Me," which allows the machine to use a customer's mobile phone and Wi-Fi network to figure out where they are when delivering items, according to VentureBeat.
The drones in this "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Delivery System" will also be able to talk to each other and share details about the weather, traffic conditions and other factors that could impact a flight.
The patent, which the e-commerce giant submitted in September 2014, says these UAVs will be "configured to autonomously deliver items of inventory to various destinations. The UAV may receive inventory information and a destination location and autonomously retrieve the inventory from a location within a materials handling facility, compute a route from the materials handling facility to a destination and travel to the destination to deliver the inventory."
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published the details about the drone patent after giving its approval for the project, BBC News reported.
The drones will also be able to update their routes in real-time, as well as use flight sensors, radar, sonar, cameras and infrared sensors to find safe landing zones.
Amazon is attempting to persuade the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to let it and other U.S. companies conduct more research on commercial drones. The FAA's Pathfinder program currently tests UAVs in their ability to gather news and monitor crops, but it has yet to test their ability to deliver packages.
The details' publishing follows a month after Amazon revealed that it is working with German automaker Audi and DHL Express on a service that would deliver packages to the trunk of a driver's car.
