B64C 13/02
Initiating means
B64C13/02 (Initiating means) appears on 1,649 US grants and 1,739 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64C- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Decoupled hand controls for aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing and forward flight capabilities15 Sep 2026US 12,735,172 B2Kitty Hawk Corporation
- System and method for controlling differential thrust of a blown lift aircraft8 Sep 2026US 12,728,985 B2Electra Aero, Inc.
- Aircraft flight envelope protection and recovery autopilot8 Sep 2026US 12,731,498 B2Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
- Aircraft sidestick1 Sep 2026US 12,722,775 B2
- Modular sensor core visualization systems and methods1 Sep 2026US 12,723,977 B2Teledyne FLIR Defense, Inc.
- Arbitrary pivot point for vehicle rotation and control8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307708 A1AB Volvo Penta
- Controllable apparatus and control handle for producing such controllable apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307782 A1
- Decoupled hand controls for aircraft with vertical takeoff and landing and forward flight capabilities8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307783 A1Kitty Hawk Corporation
- Method and device for assisting the piloting of an aircraft comprising a hybrid power plant for indicating by haptic feedback an amount of electrical energy of an electrical energy source8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307784 A1Airbus Helicopters
- Ganged control signals for vtol vehicles1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296635 A1Lockheed Martin Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- PFN/TRAC system FAA upgrades for accountable remote and robotics control to stop the unauthorized use of aircraft and to improve equipment management and public safety in transportation319US 6,965,816 B2Kline and Walker LLC · 2005
- Multiple degree of freedom damped hand controls223US 5,107,080 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1992
- Biodynamic resistant control stick198US 4,477,043 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force · 1984
- Moment cell counterbalance for active hand controller133US 5,473,235 AHoneywell Inc. · 1995
- Stabilizing force feedback in bio-actuated control systems129US 4,632,341 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force · 1986