B64F 1/225
Vehicles specially adapted therefor
Official title: Vehicles specially adapted therefor, e.g. aircraft tow tractors
B64F1/225 (Vehicles specially adapted therefor) appears on 203 US grants and 203 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Disabled aircraft transport systems1 Sep 2026US 12,722,798 B2Disabled Aircraft Tools, LLC
- Airport tugs, systems, and methods of operation thereof1 Sep 2026US 12,722,799 B2Utah Valley University
- Offline intelligence advanced driver assistance system for aircraft towing25 Aug 2026US 12,715,611 B2TowFLEXX MilTech, Inc.
- Unmanned aircraft traction control system without traction rod and intelligent tractor4 Aug 2026US 12,698,096 B2Shanghai Longyuhui Technology Co., Ltd.
- Dolly for support of aircraft landing gear2 Jun 2026US 12,643,676 B1Chase Supply, Inc.
- Reusable Door Assemblies for Vehicles8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307468 A1Textron Ground Support Equipment Inc.
- Aircraft tug attachment and detachment system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274438 A1Utah Valley University
- Pure electric aircraft and control method therefor3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257792 A1Guangdong Huitian Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd.
- Flight vehicle carrier, flight vehicle carrying system, container, and flight vehicle carrying method13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233771 A1Kawasaki Motors, Ltd.
- Height adjustment devices, systems including the same, and methods for creating vertical clearance between wings of adjacent aircraft13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233856 A1The Boeing Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Powered nose aircraft wheel system115US 7,445,178 B2The Boeing Company · 2008
- Automated aircraft towing vehicle system49US 6,305,484 B12001
- Method and tractor for towing aircraft43US 4,113,041 A1978
- Aircraft-towing tractor42US 4,632,625 AKrauss-Maffei Aktiengesellschaft · 1986
- Utility vehicle for towing and servicing aircraft39US 5,381,987 A1995