B60V 3/00
Land vehicles, waterborne vessels, or aircraft, adapted or modified to travel on
Official title: Land vehicles, waterborne vessels, or aircraft, adapted or modified to travel on air cushions
B60V3/00 (Land vehicles, waterborne vessels, or aircraft, adapted or modified to travel on) appears on 234 US grants and 146 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60V- Granted patents
- 234
- Published applications
- 146
- Assignees
- 93
- Inventors
- 369
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 10 | 0 |
| 1977 | 10 | 0 |
| 1978 | 11 | 0 |
| 1979 | 7 | 0 |
| 1980 | 6 | 0 |
| 1981 | 5 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 4 | 0 |
| 1984 | 8 | 0 |
| 1985 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1988 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989 | 4 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
| 1994 | 4 | 0 |
| 1995 | 8 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 2 |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 |
| 2003 | 1 | 3 |
| 2004 | 0 | 10 |
| 2005 | 5 | 7 |
| 2006 | 5 | 5 |
| 2007 | 8 | 4 |
| 2008 | 3 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 4 |
| 2010 | 2 | 6 |
| 2011 | 3 | 6 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4 |
| 2013 | 3 | 1 |
| 2014 | 6 | 8 |
| 2015 | 5 | 9 |
| 2016 | 4 | 9 |
| 2017 | 9 | 12 |
| 2018 | 7 | 5 |
| 2019 | 9 | 7 |
| 2020 | 5 | 8 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2 |
| 2022 | 3 | 9 |
| 2023 | 6 | 5 |
| 2024 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8 |
| 2026 | 4 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Partially aerostatically supported ram air cushion ship15 Sep 2026US 12,735,167 B2RIC Enterprises
- Hydrofoil takeoff and landing with multiple hydrofoils18 Aug 2026US 12,709,389 B2REGENT Craft Inc.
- Wing-in-ground effect vehicles and uses thereof21 Apr 2026US 12,606,302 B2LeVanta Tech Inc.
- Hydrofoil equipped seaglider takeoff17 Mar 2026US 12,576,980 B2REGENT Craft Inc.
- Structure9 Dec 2025US 12,491,856 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Hydrofoil Equipped Seaglider Takeoff27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250001 A1REGENT Craft Inc.
- Planar air jet for skirtless air cushion vehicle23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208720 A1
- Air bypass to augment air cushion vehicle9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192791 A1
- Hybrid Propulsion For Airborne Craft14 May 2026US 2026/0131899 A1REGENT Craft Inc.
- Hydrofoil Takeoff and Landing with Multiple Hydrofoils9 Apr 2026US 2026/0097848 A1REGENT Craft Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Air chamber type patient mover air pallet with multiple control features152US 5,067,189 A1991
- Personal rapid transit system83US 4,061,089 A1977
- Vehicles particularly useful as VTOL vehicles82US 6,883,748 B22005
- Planar air pallet with improved plenum chamber air dispersion means53US 4,155,421 AAmerican Industrial Research, Inc. · 1979
- Fluid bearing44US 4,172,506 A1979