B64C 13/18
Using automatic pilot
Official title: using automatic pilot
B64C13/18 (Using automatic pilot) appears on 388 US grants and 479 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64C- Granted patents
- 388
- Published applications
- 479
- Assignees
- 163
- Inventors
- 836
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 48 | 28 |
| 2024 | 43 | 32 |
| 2025 | 35 | 23 |
| 2026 | 13 | 32 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Aircraft flight envelope protection and recovery autopilot8 Sep 2026US 12,731,498 B2Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
- Modular sensor core visualization systems and methods1 Sep 2026US 12,723,977 B2Teledyne FLIR Defense, Inc.
- Battery and engine architecture for VTOL aircraft25 Aug 2026US 12,715,578 B2Archer Aviation Inc.
- Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and flight object18 Aug 2026US 12,711,632 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Elevon control system4 Aug 2026US 12,698,076 B2AeroVironment, Inc.
- Method for managing the thrust and velocity of an aircraft1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296636 A1Airbus Operations GmbH
- Improved method for determining a descent trajectory for an aircraft, device for carrying out the method, and aircraft1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296637 A1Airbus Operations GmbH
- Flight control system and method for an aircraft10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264845 A1
- Pure electric aircraft and control method therefor3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257792 A1Guangdong Huitian Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd.
- Method and system for desaturating control surfaces of an aircraft, incorporated in roll kinematics of an aircraft20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242054 A1Airbus Operations GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Simplified auto-flight system coupled with a touchscreen flight control panel91US 9,132,913 B1Rockwell Collins, Inc. · 2015
- Control system with loadfeel and backdrive69US 5,489,830 AMcDonnell Douglas Corporation · 1996
- EVTOL aircraft using large, variable speed tilt rotors58US 10,351,235 B2Karem Aircraft, Inc. · 2019
- Autonomous station keeping system for formation flight50US 7,024,309 B2The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force · 2006
- In-flight adaptive performance optimization (APO) control using redundant control effectors of an aircraft41US 5,908,176 AThe United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1999