B64F 5/40
Maintaining or repairing aircraft
B64F5/40 (Maintaining or repairing aircraft) appears on 843 US grants and 1,038 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64F- Granted patents
- 843
- Published applications
- 1,038
- Assignees
- 264
- Inventors
- 2,057
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 4 |
| 2004 | 4 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 2 | 5 |
| 2008 | 0 | 5 |
| 2009 | 0 | 7 |
| 2010 | 3 | 11 |
| 2011 | 2 | 11 |
| 2012 | 7 | 21 |
| 2013 | 12 | 28 |
| 2014 | 24 | 25 |
| 2015 | 27 | 27 |
| 2016 | 25 | 43 |
| 2017 | 45 | 96 |
| 2018 | 59 | 95 |
| 2019 | 85 | 110 |
| 2020 | 91 | 97 |
| 2021 | 79 | 95 |
| 2022 | 101 | 94 |
| 2023 | 71 | 57 |
| 2024 | 65 | 87 |
| 2025 | 69 | 62 |
| 2026 | 41 | 51 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- On-ground aircraft service system6 Oct 2026US 12,752,934 B2Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
- Method for managing the configuration of an aircraft equipped with at least one auxiliary power unit or not, aircraft and device making it possible to implement said method8 Sep 2026US 12,729,017 B2Airbus Operations GmbH
- Auto-locating and locking movable gantry system1 Sep 2026US 12,722,805 B2Wilder Systems Inc.
- Service issue forecasting that adapts to aircraft operations25 Aug 2026US 12,718,626 B2Honeywell Aerospace US LLC
- Method and system of fault detection for an aircraft18 Aug 2026US 12,709,411 B2Honeywell Aerospace US LLC
- Aircraft landing gear alignment apparatus and method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307820 A1Phase 1 Aviation LLC
- Method and System for Automated Surface Treatment24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284830 A1Palladyne Corp.
- Optimization of an open rotor propulsion system comprising an unducted fan and a ducted fan17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274420 A1General Electric Company
- Method of Assembly and Repair for a Separable Structure Having a Plurality of Panels20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242068 A1Textron Aviation Inc.
- Method and apparatus for engine hot section maintenance13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233860 A1Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ground-based mobile maintenance facilities for unmanned aerial vehicles189US 9,718,564 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2017
- Aviation field service report natural language processing178US 9,886,478 B2Honeywell International Inc. · 2018
- Location tracking and motion control of automated marking device119US 9,221,506 B1The Boeing Company · 2015
- System for analysis of a repair for a structure117US 10,275,564 B2The Boeing Company · 2019
- Wire harness system97US 6,272,387 B1The Boeing Company · 2001