B64U 20/40
Modular uavs
Official title: Modular UAVs
B64U20/40 (Modular uavs) appears on 199 US grants and 244 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64U- Granted patents
- 199
- Published applications
- 244
- Assignees
- 120
- Inventors
- 458
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2006 | 1 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 |
| 2011 | 3 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4 |
| 2014 | 1 | 8 |
| 2015 | 9 | 5 |
| 2016 | 7 | 8 |
| 2017 | 12 | 20 |
| 2018 | 14 | 22 |
| 2019 | 15 | 19 |
| 2020 | 18 | 14 |
| 2021 | 9 | 22 |
| 2022 | 7 | 25 |
| 2023 | 20 | 16 |
| 2024 | 25 | 26 |
| 2025 | 28 | 25 |
| 2026 | 20 | 12 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Modular system for drones25 Aug 2026US 12,715,624 B2Tesseract Ventures, LLC
- Flight module25 Aug 2026US 12,715,630 B2Innotec Lightweight Engineering & Polymer Technology GmbH
- Unmanned land vehicle28 Jul 2026US 12,692,028 B2Aerbots, Inc.
- Modular tandem tiltrotor aircraft14 Jul 2026US 12,679,535 B2Textron Innovations Inc.
- Method, system and components providing a secure internet connected aerial network for continuous drone operation and surveillance14 Jul 2026US 12,682,772 B2Eve Vehicles Corporation
- Field configurable autonomous land surface craft1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296612 A1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
- Breakaway aircraft structures27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249974 A1
- Modular drone with multi-configuration and multi-power systems20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242074 A1
- Unmanned vehicle management system and method30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219663 A1Firestorm Labs, Inc.
- Aerial vehicle and aerial vehicle systems23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208891 A1Zipline International Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Modular drone and methods for use237US 8,989,922 B2Azure Sky Group LLC · 2015
- Enhanced unmanned aerial vehicles for damage inspection188US 10,102,586 B1Allstate Insurance Company · 2018
- Aerial farm robot system for crop dusting, planting, fertilizing and other field jobs99US 9,382,003 B2Bee Robotics Corporation · 2016
- Methods and apparatuses for capturing and storing unmanned aircraft, including methods and apparatuses for securing the aircraft after capture97US 7,121,507 B2The Insitu Group, Inc. · 2006
- Modular nacelles to provide vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities to fixed wing aerial vehicles, and associated systems and methods90US 10,124,890 B2DronetechUAV Corporation · 2018