A62C 3/0228
With delivery of fire extinguishing material by air or aircraft
Official title: {with delivery of fire extinguishing material by air or aircraft (fire-fighting aircraft B64D1/16)}
A62C3/0228 (With delivery of fire extinguishing material by air or aircraft) appears on 287 US grants and 433 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A62C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 433
- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Forest fire suppression system6 Oct 2026US 12,752,137 B2
- Pilot controlled refill tanks for firefighting aircraft15 Sep 2026US 12,735,312 B2Whaling Fire Line Equipment, Inc.
- Device for jettisoning fluid in a determined direction for a firefighting host aircraft and aircraft equipped with such a device25 Aug 2026US 12,714,893 B2Airbus SAS
- System for dropping a liquid25 Aug 2026US 12,715,011 B2Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Ejection apparatus25 Aug 2026US 12,715,590 B2Parazero Technologies Ltd
- Drone-based fire prevention, suppression and evacuation system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306885 A1
- Autonomous Intelligent System for Rapid Wildfire Detection, Eradication, and Prevention3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257089 A1
- Method of proactively defending property and ground surfaces by spraying environmentally-clean fire inhibiting chemical liquid before the arrival of wild fire, and recording the spraying operations in a network database for future access and use27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249113 A1Mighty Fire Breaker LLC
- Gas hydrate fire extinguishing grenade, and method for extinguishing flames by using same27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249114 A1Korea Institute of Industrial Technology
- Autonomous Firefighting System with Coordinated Drone Fleet13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233038 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fire extinguishing ball65US 6,796,382 B2Siam Safety Empire Co., Ltd. · 2004
- Fire extinguishing by explosive pulverisation of projectile based frozen gases and compacted solid extinguishing agents62US 7,478,680 B22009
- Fire extinguishing bomb58US 8,746,355 B22014
- Appartus for fighting forest fires57US 7,261,165 B12007
- Fire retardant bio-friendly practice munition56US 6,470,805 B1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy · 2002