B64C 31/02
Gliders
Official title: Gliders, e.g. sailplanes (hang-gliders B64C31/028)
B64C31/02 (Gliders) appears on 77 US grants and 61 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64C- Granted patents
- 77
- Published applications
- 61
- Assignees
- 38
- Inventors
- 138
- Latest grant
- 17 Feb 2026
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| 2026 | 1 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Aerial delivery vehicle17 Feb 2026US 12,552,531 B2Freedom Flight Works, Inc.
- Aircraft survival kit glider25 Nov 2025US 12,479,574 B2Rockwell Collins, Inc.
- Solar powered stratospheric glider30 Sep 2025US 12,428,173 B2Solaris Suborbital Inc.
- Method of acquiring and processing autonomous aerial vehicle data16 Sep 2025US 12,417,659 B2
- Unmanned supply delivery aircraft29 Apr 2025US 12,286,224 B2W. Morrison Consulting Group, Inc.
- Aircraft System and Launching Method and Apparatus3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257790 A1Fuchszeug B.V.
- Aerial delivery vehicle25 Jun 2026US 2026/0175974 A1Freedom Flight Works, Inc.
- Aircraft survival kit glider25 Jun 2026US 2026/0175975 A1Rockwell Collins, Inc.
- Solar powered plane14 May 2026US 2026/0131912 A1Solaris Suborbital Inc.
- Solar powered stratospheric glider12 Mar 2026US 2026/0070686 A1Solaris Suborbital Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Organism growth prediction system using drone-captured images94US 9,984,455 B1Hana Resources, Inc. · 2018
- Unmanned aerial vehicle for logistical delivery71US 7,059,566 B2The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy · 2006
- Systems, devices, and/or methods for managing targeted payload descent51US 8,939,056 B1Barron Associates, Inc. · 2015
- Kit for converting a motorcycle to an airborne vehicle43US 4,657,207 A1987
- Coaxial drive propulsion system for aerial vehicles, and associated systems and methods35US 9,994,305 B1Swift Engineering, Inc. · 2018