B64D 45/08
Optical
Official title: optical
B64D45/08 (Optical) appears on 293 US grants and 341 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64D- Granted patents
- 293
- Published applications
- 341
- Assignees
- 120
- Inventors
- 691
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 29 | 21 |
| 2026 | 20 | 25 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Detecting objects and distance to objects for rotorcraft rotor strike avoidance8 Sep 2026US 12,731,499 B2Textron Innovations Inc.
- Display system of an aircraft suitable for displaying a flare floor symbol and associated display method7 Jul 2026US 12,673,786 B2Dassault Aviation
- Aircraft and piloting assistance method for landing in degraded visibility conditions1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296671 A1Airbus Helicopters
- Systems and methods for aircraft landing guidance during gnss denied environment27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252100 A1Honeywell International Inc.
- Management of a critical descent flight path for an aircraft13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237305 A1Honeywell International s.r.o.
- Docking systems and methods for aerial vehicles6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227798 A1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Ship-landing evaluation display system and ship-landing evaluation display method23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208880 A1Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
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