B64C 15/00
Attitude, flight direction, or altitude control by jet reaction
B64C15/00 (Attitude, flight direction, or altitude control by jet reaction) appears on 409 US grants and 440 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64C- Granted patents
- 409
- Published applications
- 440
- Assignees
- 199
- Inventors
- 744
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 28 | 30 |
| 2025 | 27 | 13 |
| 2026 | 11 | 19 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Aircraft hybrid electric propulsion and attitude controller15 Sep 2026US 12,735,191 B2Rtx Corporation
- Unmanned aerial vehicle including secondary flight controls for speed-independent attitude control and axis-independent linear motion11 Aug 2026US 12,703,523 B2DDD Express
- Configuration for vertical take-off and landing system for aerial vehicles4 Aug 2026US 12,698,080 B2Jetoptera, Inc.
- Fluidic propulsive system and thrust and lift generator for aerial vehicles4 Aug 2026US 12,698,089 B2Jetoptera, Inc.
- VTOL aircraft capable of flying forward and backward28 Apr 2026US 12,612,191 B2United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
- Heat exchanger and aircraft including the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296639 A1Plana Co., Ltd.
- Lifting apparatus for aerial vehicle24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285494 A1Changinaviation Co., Ltd.
- Ultra high temperature thrust flow actuator to minimize friction and leakage17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274400 A1Agency for Defense Development
- Uniform Exhaust Sheet and Flow Turning Control27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249983 A1Whisper Aero Inc.
- Ducted fan air vehicle13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233828 A1Venture Kel Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vertical takeoff and landing aircraft202US 6,892,980 B2Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. · 2005
- Stabilized airborne drop delivery118US 9,688,404 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2017
- Aircraft capable of vertical and short take-off and landing116US 7,267,300 B2The Boeing Company · 2007
- Aircraft thrust vectoring system97US 5,769,317 AAllison Engine Company, Inc. · 1998
- System and method for utilizing stored electrical energy for VTOL aircraft thrust enhancement and attitude control92US 7,857,254 B2Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation · 2010