B64D 3/00
Aircraft adaptations to facilitate towing or being towed
B64D3/00 (Aircraft adaptations to facilitate towing or being towed) appears on 221 US grants and 196 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64D- Granted patents
- 221
- Published applications
- 196
- Assignees
- 93
- Inventors
- 285
- Latest grant
- 21 Jul 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System and methods for mobile towing and lifting platforms21 Jul 2026US 12,686,494 B2Oqab Dietrich Induction Inc.
- Bathy-drone: an autonomous unmanned drone-tethered sonar system12 May 2026US 12,623,762 B2University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
- Vehicle, transport system (variants) and method of moving vehicle5 May 2026US 12,617,530 B2
- Aircraft tow system10 Feb 2026US 12,545,408 B2Edge Logistics, Inc.
- Relative navigation for aerial recovery of aircraft20 Jan 2026US 12,528,584 B2General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
- Vertical take-off and landing aircraft and propulsion assembly20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242058 A1Burl Aerospace Pty Ltd
- Aircraft tow system6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225716 A1
- Automated towed glider control system19 Mar 2026US 2026/0077854 A1Pathfinder Systems, Inc.
- Solar Towed Aerial Platforms26 Feb 2026US 2026/0054828 A1The Suppes Family Trust
- Aerospace system and method for delivering payload to orbit and to midair1 Jan 2026US 2026/0001647 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Launch and recovery system for unmanned aerial vehicles129US 6,874,729 B1Advanced Aerospace Technologies, Inc. · 2005
- Launch and recovery system for unmanned aerial vehicles103US 7,097,137 B2Advanced Aerospace Technologies, Inc. · 2006
- Small unmanned air vehicle system for deploying and towing a sensor in a tow medium and methods related thereto82US 7,673,831 B2Lockheed Martin Corporation · 2010
- System and methods for airborne launch and recovery of aircraft82US 8,231,083 B2The Boeing Company · 2012
- Method and arrangement for providing safe vertical landing of airplanes and extrinsically supported zero-run takeoff of airplanes63US 4,757,959 A1988