ABOUT

NIRO Corp

An Atlanta, Georgia aerospace and software company. Two drone hardware platforms, one shipping consumer app, one granted US patent, and a stamped engineering release package behind the hardware.

Mission

Build the airborne infrastructure and consumer tools that the drone era actually needs — starting with two hardware problems the industry has been routing around for a decade:

  • Aerial skywriting without aircraft. Fixed-wing skywriting costs roughly $3,000 per flight and produces cursive text only. SkyWrite replaces the aircraft with a drone, the pilot with firmware, and cursive-only with full graphics, logos, and QR codes.
  • Drone operations that survive degraded comms. Today, the default response to a degraded RF link is mission abort. Our Drone Satellite architecture turns that failure mode into a routine autonomous recovery.

Around the drone program we also ship consumer software — beginning with PicPlots — to keep a revenue loop running while hardware quotes and test cycles proceed.

Founder

Jesse Collings

Founder & CEO — Atlanta, Georgia

Named inventor on US Patent 12,252,279 B1 (Drone Satellite — autonomous airborne relay architecture). Directs the hardware program (mechanical, electrical, firmware, simulation), oversees the two consumer-software properties shipping under NIRO, and handles commercial conversations directly.

Reachable by email at jesse@niroaerial.com or by phone at (678) 524-9479.

Intellectual property

  • US Patent 12,252,279 B1 — Drone Satellite, granted. System-level architecture patent on autonomous airborne relay: a secondary drone docks to a host aircraft, undocks on its own when comms degrade, repositions as a relay node, and re-docks when the link recovers. The patent covers the decision-and-control architecture, not just the docking mechanism.
  • Patent pending — SkyWrite heater-core geometry and aerial-messaging method.
  • Marks — NIRO Corp (common-law), SkyWrite, DeNiro Card, PicPlots.
  • Registrations — D-U-N-S 107089967; Wikidata Q139377884.

Current status (April 2026)

  • SkyWrite hardware — 18 parts in active quoting across PCBWay and Xometry (CNC, sheet-metal, laser-cut, 3D print). 8 parts already in cart. Firmware at 35/36 HIL-Lite tests passing.
  • Drone Satellite hardware — Core docking, latch, AprilTag, LiDAR, and camera-bracket drawings released stamped. Tethered-satellite regulatory path identified (not classified as a drone under FAA Part 107 when tethered).
  • PicPlots — Live on iOS and Android. App Store IAP-compliant, hard age-gate, report-and-block moderation, server-side Apple receipt validation.
  • Engineering package — Two-round independent master audit completed 2026-04-19. 11 of 17 P0 items closed outright, 4 closed with documented caveats, 2 bench-data items disclosed openly. Full closeout document available on request.

Near-term roadmap

  • Q2 2026 — Finish PCBWay / Xometry quoting on remaining SkyWrite and Drone Satellite parts. First-article inspection on SW-014 (Inconel 600 heater core) and DS-006B/C (440C SS hook and receiver).
  • Q2–Q3 2026 — Bench-test the heater duty-cycle envelope above 800 °C; close the wireless-charging alignment / efficiency measurement gap; release the SW-015 radiant-shield drawing.
  • Q3 2026 — First outdoor SkyWrite flight article. Drone Satellite dry-docking 5-cycle validation and re-dock sequence in sim, followed by tethered hardware.
  • Ongoing — Consumer-software revenue via PicPlots; partner conversations on Drone Satellite licensing (defense ISR, BVLOS commercial, public-safety).

Where next

  • Products — the three product pages.
  • Engineering — the hardware release package in detail.
  • Contact — to talk to Jesse directly.