B64D 15/00
De-icing or preventing icing on exterior surfaces of aircraft
B64D15/00 (De-icing or preventing icing on exterior surfaces of aircraft) appears on 1,574 US grants and 1,559 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64D- Granted patents
- 1,574
- Published applications
- 1,559
- Assignees
- 456
- Inventors
- 2,801
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 98 | 77 |
| 2025 | 81 | 61 |
| 2026 | 42 | 51 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B64D 15/12De-icing or preventing icing on exterior surfaces of aircraft: by electric heating625
- B64D 15/20Means for detecting icing or initiating de-icing460
- B64D 15/02De-icing or preventing icing on exterior surfaces of aircraft: by ducted hot406
- B64D 15/16De-icing or preventing icing on exterior surfaces of aircraft: by mechanical means224
Recent patents
- Ice protection system using waste heat recovery6 Oct 2026US 12,752,922 B2Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
- Mechanical de-icing system29 Sep 2026US 12,747,024 B2Textron Innovations Inc.
- Open rotor aircraft propulsion system with anti-icing system22 Sep 2026US 12,741,744 B2Rtx Corporation
- De-icing systems22 Sep 2026US 12,741,745 B2De-Ice Technologies, Inc.
- Systems and methods for an ice runback control zone in an electrothermal ice protection system15 Sep 2026US 12,735,186 B2Goodrich Corporation
- Leading edge of an aircraft part and process for forming a leading edge8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307808 A1Airbus Operations GmbH
- System for de-icing a surface of an aircraft1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296651 A1Safran Aerosystems
- Aero-conforming ice detector1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296652 A1Raytheon Company
- Integrated flap control unit24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285472 A1Archer Aviation Inc.
- Aircraft powerplant with flow regulator anti-icing system3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257799 A1Rtx Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of manufacturing a planar coil construction246US 5,142,767 AThe B. F. Goodrich Company · 1992
- Method and apparatus for structural integrity monitoring191US 5,195,046 A1993
- System for detecting ice or snow on surface which specularly reflects light153US 5,838,239 ARobotic Vision Systems, Inc. · 1998
- Indirect current monitoring via voltage and impedance monitoring147US 4,514,619 AThe B. F. Goodrich Company · 1985
- Surface topographies for non-toxic bioadhesion control146US 7,650,848 B2University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. · 2010