B64C 13/503
Fly-by-wire
Official title: {Fly-by-Wire}
B64C13/503 (Fly-by-wire) appears on 373 US grants and 417 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 417
- Assignees
- 120
- Inventors
- 659
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Flight control system digital surface position sensor with command-response monitor and mechanical disconnect monitor6 Oct 2026US 12,752,930 B2Honeywell Aerospace US LLC
- Can bus network protection in redundant fly-by-wire systems8 Sep 2026US 12,728,987 B2Honeywell Aerospace US LLC
- Airplane fly-by-wire control system and method1 Sep 2026US 12,722,776 B2Kaney Aerospace, Inc.
- System and method for flight control of an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft11 Aug 2026US 12,703,485 B2Beta Air, LLC
- Integrated flap control unit21 Jul 2026US 12,686,488 B2Archer Aviation Inc.
- Integrated flap control unit24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285472 A1Archer Aviation Inc.
- Can bus network protection in redundant fly-by-wire systems3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257789 A1Honeywell International Inc.
- Method and system for desaturating control surfaces of an aircraft, incorporated in roll kinematics of an aircraft20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242054 A1Airbus Operations GmbH
- Improved airplane fly-by-wire control system and method13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233827 A1Kaney Aerospace, Inc.
- Aircraft with a modular electric flight control system6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225713 A1Airbus Helicopters
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method, system, and computer program product for tactile cueing flight control64US 6,735,500 B2The Boeing Company · 2004
- Avionic control system57US 4,649,484 AThe Boeing Company · 1987
- Steering mechanism with an active force feedback, especially for aircraft55US 4,236,685 AMesserschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung · 1980
- Flight control module merged into the integrated modular avionics54US 6,443,399 B1Honeywell International Inc. · 2002
- Ground state-fly state transition control for unique-trim aircraft flight control system53US 5,446,666 AThe Boeing Company · 1995