B64C 29/02
Aircraft capable of landing or taking-off vertically: having its flight directional axis
Official title: having its flight directional axis vertical when grounded
B64C29/02 (Aircraft capable of landing or taking-off vertically: having its flight directional axis) appears on 458 US grants and 519 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- System and method for payload transportation18 Aug 2026US 12,709,409 B2MightyFly Inc.
- Unmanned aerial vehicle and landing system18 Aug 2026US 12,709,417 B2OneSec, Inc.
- Aircraft and aircraft control method27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249986 A1Aeronext Inc.
- Aerial vehicles with protective members for absorbing shock load during wire strike27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250021 A1University of Kansas
- Industrial aerial robot systems and methods20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242078 A1
- Industrial aerial robot systems and methods20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242079 A1
- Methods and Systems for Cloud-Based Management of Images Captured by Aerial Vehicles13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236529 A1AeroVironment, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vertically launchable and recoverable winged aircraft119US 5,765,783 AThe Boeing Company · 1998
- Vertical takeoff and landing aircraft119US 8,505,846 B12013
- Aircraft with selectively attachable passenger pod assembly112US 9,963,228 B2Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. · 2018
- Convertible compounded rotorcraft105US 8,950,698 B1The Boeing Company · 2015
- Tailboom-stabilized VTOL aircraft103US 6,845,939 B12005