B64F 1/12
Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations: for anchoring aircraft
Official title: for anchoring aircraft
B64F1/12 (Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations: for anchoring aircraft) appears on 326 US grants and 299 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64F- Granted patents
- 326
- Published applications
- 299
- Assignees
- 185
- Inventors
- 625
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2003 | 3 | 1 |
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| 2005 | 1 | 7 |
| 2006 | 5 | 1 |
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| 2012 | 2 | 9 |
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| 2023 | 22 | 15 |
| 2024 | 25 | 16 |
| 2025 | 15 | 18 |
| 2026 | 9 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Aviation wheel chock apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,752,748 B2Checkers Industrial Products, LLC
- Multicopter with self-adjusting rotors8 Sep 2026US 12,730,452 B2Kitty Hawk Corporation
- Heliport docking system25 Aug 2026US 12,715,608 B2Textron Innovations Inc.
- Drone delivery system hub for facilitating parcel delivery by unmanned aerial vehicles25 Aug 2026US 12,715,609 B2United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
- Aerostat tether installation, handling, damage control, and quick replacement system14 Apr 2026US 12,600,492 B2
- Docking systems and methods for aerial vehicles6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227798 A1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Beacon system for aerodrome with airship30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217385 A1
- Position control system for vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, and position control method for vertical takeoff and landing aircraft23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211426 A1Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Landing pad for aerial vehicle with granule-based locking mechanism16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200593 A1Drone Lander Ltd.
- Aircraft cable mooring device and fixing method16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200594 A1Loong (Hangzhou) Aviation Maintennace Engineering Co., Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multi-use UAV docking station systems and methods430US 9,387,928 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2016
- Multi-use unmanned aerial vehicle docking station174US 9,527,605 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2016
- System and components useful in landing airborne craft134US 5,687,930 AIndal Technologies Inc. · 1997
- VTOL launching and retrieval systems123US 4,123,020 A1978
- Apparatus for capturing, securing and traversing remotely piloted vehicles and methods therefor122US 5,039,034 AIndal Technologies Inc. · 1991