B64C 3/56
Folding or collapsing to reduce overall dimensions of aircraft
B64C3/56 (Folding or collapsing to reduce overall dimensions of aircraft) appears on 441 US grants and 489 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64C- Granted patents
- 441
- Published applications
- 489
- Assignees
- 124
- Inventors
- 670
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 8 |
| 2004 | 4 | 4 |
| 2005 | 5 | 3 |
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| 2007 | 2 | 1 |
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| 2010 | 3 | 9 |
| 2011 | 3 | 7 |
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| 2016 | 17 | 27 |
| 2017 | 10 | 35 |
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| 2019 | 39 | 59 |
| 2020 | 43 | 42 |
| 2021 | 44 | 20 |
| 2022 | 36 | 35 |
| 2023 | 33 | 36 |
| 2024 | 40 | 31 |
| 2025 | 31 | 33 |
| 2026 | 27 | 42 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Vertical takeoff and landing aeronautical apparatus with a folding wing6 Oct 2026US 12,752,915 B1Aerhart, LLC
- Aeronautical vehicle and method of transitioning between flight modes for an aeronautical vehicle22 Sep 2026US 12,741,736 B2Technische Universiteit Delft
- Wing deployment device15 Sep 2026US 12,735,171 B1General Atomics
- Airframe attachments8 Sep 2026US 12,728,980 B2Skydio, Inc.
- Folding wing aircraft8 Sep 2026US 12,728,981 B1
- Folding wing arrangement with axial-flux motor1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296630 A1Airbus Operations GmbH
- Folding wing arrangement with power transmission conduit1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296631 A1Airbus Operations GmbH
- Folding wing arrangement with latch assembly1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296632 A1
- Actuation unit in an aircraft wing, method of assembling an actuation unit, aircraft wing and aircraft1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296638 A1Airbus Operations GmbH
- Rotary actuator-lockable hinge device10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264838 A1The Boeing Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- VTOL personal aircraft164US 6,886,776 B22005
- Folding wing-tip system97US 5,381,986 AThe Boeing Company · 1995
- Mechanism for folding, sweeping, and locking vehicle wings about a single pivot92US 8,089,034 B2ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. · 2012
- Articulating winglets91US 5,988,563 AMcDonnell Douglas Corporation · 1999
- Multi-purpose aircraft88US 5,645,250 A1997