B64F 1/14
Towers or masts for mooring airships or balloons
B64F1/14 (Towers or masts for mooring airships or balloons) appears on 59 US grants and 58 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64F- Granted patents
- 59
- Published applications
- 58
- Assignees
- 39
- Inventors
- 124
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 2 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 3 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 4 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 4 | 6 |
| 2016 | 5 | 7 |
| 2017 | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 3 | 2 |
| 2019 | 3 | 6 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- 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
- Method and apparatus for lighter-than-air airship with improved structure and delivery system27 Jan 2026US 12,534,174 B2H2 Clipper, Inc.
- Take-off and landing apparatus for vertical take-off and landing aircraft8 Apr 2025US 12,269,626 B2
- System and method for improved securing of an aerostat to a receiving structure17 Sep 2024US 12,091,192 B2
- Beacon system for aerodrome with airship30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217385 A1
- Captive balloon support structure assembly6 Nov 2025US 2025/0340285 A1
- Drone delivery system hub for facilitating parcel delivery by unmanned aerial vehicles1 May 2025US 2025/0136306 A1United Parcle Service of America, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for lighter-than-air airship with improved structure and delivery system6 Mar 2025US 2025/0074572 A1H2 Clipper, Inc.
- Port, mobile object, and method for installing plurality of ports23 May 2024US 2024/0166370 A1Aeronext Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Release fitting for balloons50US 6,234,425 B1Winzen Engineering Incorporated · 2001
- Ground handling system for an airship50US 7,464,650 B2Lockheed Martin Corporation · 2008
- Lightning hardened tether cable and an aerostat tethered to a mooring system therewith38US 4,842,221 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1989
- Balloon launch tower26US 9,120,551 B1Google Inc. · 2015
- Small tethered aerostat relocatable system25US 4,402,479 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1983