Amazon patents fly-by drone package delivery technology (Images)

Amazon.com Inc. has patented technology that allows delivery drones to deploy packages mid-flight and steer them to their destination on the ground.Fly-by drone delivery would save time and energy by eliminating takeoffs and landings for each package. It's the latest patent to come out of the Seattle-based company's futuristic Prime Air delivery program.Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) filed for the patent in June 2015, describing it as technology for “maneuvering a package following in-flight releas