B64U 2101/20
Uavs specially adapted for particular uses or applications: for use as communications
Official title: for use as communications relays, e.g. high-altitude platforms
B64U2101/20 (Uavs specially adapted for particular uses or applications: for use as communications) appears on 935 US grants and 1,145 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64U- Granted patents
- 935
- Published applications
- 1,145
- Assignees
- 462
- Inventors
- 2,160
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 115 | 84 |
| 2025 | 92 | 45 |
| 2026 | 37 | 25 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Unmanned aerial vehicle with immunity to hijacking, jamming, and spoofing attacks6 Oct 2026US 12,755,638 B2Drobotics, LLC
- Aerial drone navigation system with lidar mapping22 Sep 2026US 12,743,734 B2
- Spaceborne neural network for unmanned traffic management22 Sep 2026US 12,743,959 B2Drobotics, LLC
- Advanced networking, detection, and data visualization techniques in multiple networked devices8 Sep 2026US 12,730,322 B1
- Systems and methods for controlling a fleet of drones for data collection8 Sep 2026US 12,731,335 B2State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
- Flight management system for uavs24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288136 A1Logicom & Wireless Ltd.
- Systems and methods for controlling a fleet of drones for data collection24 Sep 2026US 2026/0289907 A1State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
- Equatorial Stratospheric Sunbelts (ESS)17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274468 A1Sunlight Aerospace Inc.
- Edge-coordinated sensor data processing and hierarchical validation system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277247 A1Chioccoli LLC
- Themed aerial vehicle entertainment platform for providing dynamically-coordinated show10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268782 A1Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Cellular system380US 10,812,992 B12020
- Unmanned aerial vehicle base station367US 8,511,606 B1The Boeing Company · 2013
- Wirelessly controlling unmanned aircraft and accessing associated surveillance data318US 7,581,702 B2Insitu, Inc. · 2009
- Motion and image-based control system274US 11,126,206 B2Snap Inc. · 2021
- Unmanned aerial vehicle flight path determination, optimization, and management258US 9,334,052 B2Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. · 2016