B64D 15/20
Means for detecting icing or initiating de-icing
B64D15/20 (Means for detecting icing or initiating de-icing) appears on 460 US grants and 410 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64D- Granted patents
- 460
- Published applications
- 410
- Assignees
- 212
- Inventors
- 885
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 8 | 0 |
| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 8 | 0 |
| 2002 | 5 | 3 |
| 2003 | 2 | 3 |
| 2004 | 4 | 7 |
| 2005 | 3 | 10 |
| 2006 | 5 | 3 |
| 2007 | 3 | 10 |
| 2008 | 5 | 8 |
| 2009 | 7 | 10 |
| 2010 | 12 | 12 |
| 2011 | 8 | 15 |
| 2012 | 8 | 9 |
| 2013 | 10 | 18 |
| 2014 | 10 | 12 |
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| 2016 | 19 | 24 |
| 2017 | 18 | 29 |
| 2018 | 33 | 30 |
| 2019 | 33 | 30 |
| 2020 | 23 | 31 |
| 2021 | 20 | 20 |
| 2022 | 20 | 21 |
| 2023 | 17 | 30 |
| 2024 | 25 | 22 |
| 2025 | 25 | 18 |
| 2026 | 12 | 19 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for an ice runback control zone in an electrothermal ice protection system15 Sep 2026US 12,735,186 B2Goodrich Corporation
- Integration of an ice protection system and an ice detector into a single line replaceable unit11 Aug 2026US 12,703,489 B2Goodrich Corporation
- Composite aircraft component with embedded piezoelectric ice protection11 Aug 2026US 12,703,491 B2Goodrich Corporation
- Apparatus and method for detecting water or ice16 Jun 2026US 12,654,865 B2Ultra PCS Limited
- Additive material integrated heater deposited or embedded within magnetostrictive oscillating ice detector sensor12 May 2026US 12,623,784 B2
- 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
- Method and system for coordinating contamination removal that includes an automated inspection system that is integrated within the contamination removal process3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259149 A1JCAI Inc.
- Optical particulate sensor with multi-line laser usage for increased measurement accuracy27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251546 A1Honeywell International s.r.o.
- Method for controlling anti-icing means in an aircraft as a function of the ice accretion rate, and corresponding system6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225720 A1Safran Aerosystems
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Fiber optic probe system102US 5,005,005 A1991
- System for detecting ice or snow on surface which specularly reflects light89US 6,069,565 ARosemount Aerospace Inc. · 2000
- Systems and methods for modifying an ice-to-object interface73US 6,870,139 B2Trustees of Dartmouth College · 2005