B64F 5/00
Designing, manufacturing, assembling, cleaning, maintaining or repairing aircraft, not otherwise provided for
Official title: Designing, manufacturing, assembling, cleaning, maintaining or repairing aircraft, not otherwise provided for; Handling, transporting, testing or inspecting aircraft components, not otherwise provided for
B64F5/00 (Designing, manufacturing, assembling, cleaning, maintaining or repairing aircraft, not otherwise provided for) appears on 4,846 US grants and 5,632 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64F- Granted patents
- 4,846
- Published applications
- 5,632
- Assignees
- 1,038
- Inventors
- 10,289
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 4 | 0 |
| 1984 | 5 | 0 |
| 1985 | 5 | 0 |
| 1986 | 7 | 0 |
| 1987 | 7 | 0 |
| 1988 | 7 | 0 |
| 1989 | 9 | 0 |
| 1990 | 9 | 0 |
| 1991 | 13 | 0 |
| 1992 | 13 | 0 |
| 1993 | 12 | 0 |
| 1994 | 14 | 0 |
| 1995 | 16 | 0 |
| 1996 | 23 | 0 |
| 1997 | 21 | 0 |
| 1998 | 25 | 0 |
| 1999 | 22 | 0 |
| 2000 | 26 | 0 |
| 2001 | 37 | 12 |
| 2002 | 23 | 29 |
| 2003 | 28 | 33 |
| 2004 | 32 | 40 |
| 2005 | 21 | 41 |
| 2006 | 28 | 46 |
| 2007 | 30 | 46 |
| 2008 | 22 | 45 |
| 2009 | 31 | 66 |
| 2010 | 35 | 92 |
| 2011 | 45 | 89 |
| 2012 | 64 | 99 |
| 2013 | 86 | 136 |
| 2014 | 105 | 156 |
| 2015 | 148 | 202 |
| 2016 | 159 | 294 |
| 2017 | 239 | 388 |
| 2018 | 283 | 408 |
| 2019 | 378 | 485 |
| 2020 | 439 | 589 |
| 2021 | 412 | 490 |
| 2022 | 491 | 514 |
| 2023 | 436 | 331 |
| 2024 | 398 | 389 |
| 2025 | 368 | 332 |
| 2026 | 255 | 280 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B64F 5/10Manufacturing or assembling aircraft1,902
- B64F 5/60Testing or inspecting aircraft components or systems1,692
- B64F 5/40Maintaining or repairing aircraft843
- B64F 5/50Handling or transporting aircraft components399
- B64F 5/30Cleaning aircraft257
- B64F 5/20Ground installations for de-icing aircraft131
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Most cited
By later US patents
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- System for detecting ice or snow on surface which specularly reflects light153US 5,838,239 ARobotic Vision Systems, Inc. · 1998