This isn’t a guarantee that Amazon will implement the beacon pod technology. The filing does however indicate some insight into the kind of problems and solutions that drone delivery networks face for complete market immersion. Amazon’s Senior Hardware Development Engineer Nicholas Gentry is listed on the patent as the inventor. Gentry also was behind a patent that would allow Amazon drones to talk with customers. With the beacon pod, one can assume that Amazon’s inventors envision the Seattle-based tech giant expanding its increasingly robotized distribution and delivery network.