B64U 10/16
With five or more distinct rotor axes
Official title: with five or more distinct rotor axes, e.g. octocopters
B64U10/16 (With five or more distinct rotor axes) appears on 417 US grants and 550 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64U- Granted patents
- 417
- Published applications
- 550
- Assignees
- 232
- Inventors
- 876
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 3 | 11 |
| 2016 | 10 | 26 |
| 2017 | 25 | 46 |
| 2018 | 41 | 60 |
| 2019 | 48 | 54 |
| 2020 | 46 | 65 |
| 2021 | 33 | 63 |
| 2022 | 46 | 49 |
| 2023 | 46 | 41 |
| 2024 | 47 | 41 |
| 2025 | 47 | 50 |
| 2026 | 22 | 31 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Drone operable for flight1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299616 A1BAE SYSTEMS plc
- Electric flight vehicle24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285510 A1Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
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- Unmanned aerial vehicle systems and methods24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285513 A1Swiss Robotics and Advanced Technologies AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Modular drone and methods for use237US 8,989,922 B2Azure Sky Group LLC · 2015
- Transportation network utilizing autonomous vehicles for transporting items167US 9,786,187 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2017
- Airborne fulfillment center utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles for item delivery150US 9,305,280 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2016
- Electricity generation in automated aerial vehicles124US 9,550,577 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2017
- Aircraft with selectively attachable passenger pod assembly112US 9,963,228 B2Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. · 2018