B64U 20/50
Foldable or collapsible uavs
Official title: Foldable or collapsible UAVs (with frangible components B64U20/30)
B64U20/50 (Foldable or collapsible uavs) appears on 185 US grants and 230 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64U- Granted patents
- 185
- Published applications
- 230
- Assignees
- 108
- Inventors
- 383
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 2 |
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| 2005 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 |
| 2009 | 2 | 1 |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4 |
| 2012 | 0 | 6 |
| 2013 | 3 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5 |
| 2015 | 5 | 6 |
| 2016 | 4 | 9 |
| 2017 | 5 | 18 |
| 2018 | 13 | 22 |
| 2019 | 24 | 22 |
| 2020 | 19 | 25 |
| 2021 | 14 | 20 |
| 2022 | 9 | 17 |
| 2023 | 22 | 12 |
| 2024 | 16 | 20 |
| 2025 | 19 | 13 |
| 2026 | 15 | 17 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Panoramic unmanned aerial vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,752,941 B2Antigravity (Sz) Technology Co., Ltd.
- Aeronautical vehicle and method of transitioning between flight modes for an aeronautical vehicle22 Sep 2026US 12,741,736 B2Technische Universiteit Delft
- Aircraft1 Sep 2026US 12,722,811 B2Sz Dji Technology Co., Ltd.
- Multicopter18 Aug 2026US 12,709,418 B2Real-Time Robotics Inc
- Elevon control system4 Aug 2026US 12,698,076 B2AeroVironment, Inc.
- Image Stabilization For Autonomous Aerial Vehicles20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242076 A1Skydio, Inc.
- Flight vehicle13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237881 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Unmanned aircraft30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217392 A1Kawasaki Motors, Ltd.
- Foldable rotary wing aircraft9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192911 A1Lockheed Martin Corporation
- Environment Illumination For Autonomous Aerial Vehicles9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192950 A1Skydio, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Unmanned aerial vehicle assistant114US 9,471,059 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2016
- Modular flight vehicle with wings113US 8,646,720 B22014
- Drone device security system107US 9,643,722 B12017
- Rotary wing aircraft having a non-rotating structural backbone and a rotor blade pitch controller73US 7,789,341 B22010
- Rapid assembly aircraft for ground surveillance67US 5,035,382 AAeroVironment, Inc. · 1991