B64D 5/00
Aircraft transported by aircraft
Official title: Aircraft transported by aircraft, e.g. for release or reberthing during flight
B64D5/00 (Aircraft transported by aircraft) appears on 268 US grants and 269 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64D- Granted patents
- 268
- Published applications
- 269
- Assignees
- 114
- Inventors
- 459
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 2 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 5 | 4 |
| 2004 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 4 | 5 |
| 2006 | 3 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 3 |
| 2010 | 0 | 4 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 |
| 2012 | 3 | 2 |
| 2013 | 3 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 6 | 8 |
| 2016 | 7 | 12 |
| 2017 | 9 | 46 |
| 2018 | 13 | 20 |
| 2019 | 28 | 21 |
| 2020 | 35 | 31 |
| 2021 | 28 | 30 |
| 2022 | 15 | 17 |
| 2023 | 36 | 13 |
| 2024 | 25 | 19 |
| 2025 | 15 | 9 |
| 2026 | 7 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method for precision localization of aircraft in dynamic Euclidean reference frames while moving29 Sep 2026US 12,747,022 B2Target Arm Inc.
- Unmanned aerial vehicle system having multiple drones18 Aug 2026US 12,709,422 B2
- Vehicle, transport system (variants) and method of moving vehicle5 May 2026US 12,617,530 B2
- Payload (variants) and air transport system (variants) comprising same5 May 2026US 12,617,563 B2
- Apparatus and method for ordinance mounting system31 Mar 2026US 12,589,895 B2Lyell Loomis, Inc.
- Midair item dispenser systems and methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307790 A1
- Autonomous delivery vehicle and system27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249993 A1Zipline International Inc.
- Vertical take-off and landing aircraft and propulsion assembly20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242058 A1Burl Aerospace Pty Ltd
- Multistage Free-Flight Testing System13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233852 A1United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
- Vtol transport clusters2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184426 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Deployment and adjustment of airborne unmanned aerial vehicles291US 9,421,869 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2016
- Airborne fulfillment center utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles for item delivery150US 9,305,280 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2016
- Helicopter airborne load systems and composite aircraft configurations149US 4,267,987 A1981
- Drone device security system107US 9,643,722 B12017
- Convertible compounded rotorcraft105US 8,950,698 B1The Boeing Company · 2015