B64C 39/022
Tethered aircraft
Official title: {Tethered aircraft}
B64C39/022 (Tethered aircraft) appears on 80 US grants and 102 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64C- Granted patents
- 80
- Published applications
- 102
- Assignees
- 58
- Inventors
- 175
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2016 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 7 |
| 2018 | 5 | 4 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 |
| 2020 | 3 | 11 |
| 2021 | 3 | 15 |
| 2022 | 5 | 7 |
| 2023 | 18 | 24 |
| 2024 | 20 | 11 |
| 2025 | 12 | 10 |
| 2026 | 10 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Drone network and system with a drone network8 Sep 2026US 12,729,020 B2IDAS GmbH—Intelligent Drone Application Systems
- Slanted top loaded monopole for VLF generation8 Sep 2026US 12,731,885 B1HRL Laboratories, LLC
- Unmanned aerial vehicle tethered with optical fiber5 May 2026US 12,617,560 B2Equinox Innovative Systems LLC
- Airframe of a volitant body21 Apr 2026US 12,606,292 B2Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Aeromechanical line climber14 Apr 2026US 12,600,473 B1United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
- Aircraft System and Launching Method and Apparatus3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257790 A1Fuchszeug B.V.
- Aircraft tow system6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225716 A1
- Vtol transport clusters2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184426 A1
- System and method for tethered unmanned aerial vehicle takeoff, landing, and storage14 May 2026US 2026/0131903 A1Dragonfly Pictures, Inc.
- Package Loading Mechanism5 Mar 2026US 2026/0062125 A1Wing Aviation LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Self-erecting windmill58US 3,987,987 A1976
- Flight configuration for payload and lift aircraft21US 9,958,876 B2Kitty Hawk Corporation · 2018
- Automatic supply station for an autonomous aerial vehicle16US 12,134,329 B2Safran Electronics & Defense · 2024
- Detachable power tethering systems for aircraft11US 11,273,911 B2Textron Innovations Inc. · 2022
- Tethered wind turbine using a stopped rotor aircraft10US 10,144,510 B1Kitty Hawk Corporation · 2018