B64C 31/06
Kites
Official title: Kites (toy aspects A63H27/08; airborne towed targets, e.g. kites F41J9/10)
B64C31/06 (Kites) appears on 127 US grants and 149 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64C- Granted patents
- 127
- Published applications
- 149
- Assignees
- 57
- Inventors
- 225
- Latest grant
- 9 Jun 2026
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| 2003 | 3 | 4 |
| 2004 | 2 | 6 |
| 2005 | 4 | 4 |
| 2006 | 6 | 5 |
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| 2008 | 2 | 0 |
| 2009 | 2 | 5 |
| 2010 | 2 | 6 |
| 2011 | 1 | 4 |
| 2012 | 3 | 6 |
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| 2015 | 3 | 10 |
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| 2019 | 3 | 13 |
| 2020 | 12 | 12 |
| 2021 | 6 | 6 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9 |
| 2023 | 10 | 9 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4 |
| 2025 | 5 | 8 |
| 2026 | 4 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Control device9 Jun 2026US 12,649,573 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Aeromechanical line climber14 Apr 2026US 12,600,473 B1United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
- Method for landing a kite system, and kite system17 Feb 2026US 12,552,532 B2SkySails Power GmbH
- Method for connecting tether10 Feb 2026US 12,545,432 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Line climber for kite-based atmospheric profiling and remote sensing7 Oct 2025US 12,434,835 B1United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
- Pump16 Apr 2026US 2026/0104042 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Kite launching and landing assist device and floating unit9 Oct 2025US 2025/0313321 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Kite launching and landing guide device2 Oct 2025US 2025/0305480 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Method for connecting tether11 Sep 2025US 2025/0282491 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Connected kite14 Aug 2025US 2025/0256843 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
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