B64C 39/001
Flying saucers
Official title: {Flying saucers}
B64C39/001 (Flying saucers) appears on 101 US grants and 95 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 95
- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Propulsion systems and vehicles using the same19 May 2026US 12,631,155 B2
- Method of obtaining lift and thrust for horizontal flight of vertical take-off and landing flying machine while maintaining the horizontal stability of the machine's flight and the machine to implement this method31 Mar 2026US 12,589,870 B2
- Steerable rotating projectile17 Jun 2025US 12,330,782 B1
- Vertical take off and landing aircraft22 Apr 2025US 12,280,869 B2Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
- Propulsion systems and vehicles using the same28 Jan 2025US 12,209,555 B2
- Electric flight vehicle24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285510 A1Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Disc-Shaped Aircraft9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192920 A1
- Apparatus to convert centrifugal force to linear motion19 Jun 2025US 2025/0198395 A1
- Propulsion systems and vehicles using the same5 Jun 2025US 2025/0179973 A1
- The method of obtaining lift and thrust for horizontal flight of vertical take-off and landing flying machine while maintaining the horizontal stability of the machine's flight and the machine to implement this method26 Dec 2024US 2024/0425178 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Aerodynamic lift apparatus120US 6,073,881 A2000
- Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) flying disc72US 5,351,911 A1994
- Aircraft, having a pair of counter rotating rotors65US 5,064,143 ASky Disk Holding SA · 1991
- Lift generating method and apparatus for aircraft65US 5,240,204 A1993
- Flying arrangement62US 7,465,236 B2Dieter Wagels · 2008