B64U 40/00
On-board mechanical arrangements for adjusting control surfaces or rotors
Official title: On-board mechanical arrangements for adjusting control surfaces or rotors; On-board mechanical arrangements for in-flight adjustment of the base configuration (control of position, course, altitude or attitude of air or space vehicles, e.g. automatic pilot, G05D1/00)
B64U40/00 (On-board mechanical arrangements for adjusting control surfaces or rotors) appears on 189 US grants and 260 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64U- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 260
- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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Recent patents
- Systems and methods for a transformable unmanned aerial vehicle with coplanar and omnidirectional features6 Oct 2026US 12,752,938 B2Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
- Helix tilt device for tilting coaxial propulsion system25 Aug 2026US 12,715,626 B2Lockheed Martin Corporation
- Hybrid exploration and inspection robot25 Aug 2026US 12,715,627 B2Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona
- Systems and methods for controlling engine speed and/or pitch of propulsion members for aerial vehicles25 Aug 2026US 12,715,628 B2Sonin Hybrid, LLC
- Unmanned aerial vehicle including secondary flight controls for speed-independent attitude control and axis-independent linear motion11 Aug 2026US 12,703,523 B2DDD Express
- Variable-pitch propeller passively controlled by thrust8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307780 A1Lockheed Martin Corporation
- Articulated ring wing evtol structure with distributed propulsion and advanced dynamic payload stabilization system and integrated energy regeneration and safety systems8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307829 A1Aerial MECHANICA Inc.
- System for controlling wing sweep angle and unmanned aerial vehicle including the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296690 A1Hanwha Aerospace Co., Ltd.
- Controlled flight of a multicopter experiencing a failure affecting an effector17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274399 A1ETH Zurich
- Drone attraction system and method3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257816 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Modular flying vehicle133US 8,453,962 B22013
- Determining center of gravity of an automated aerial vehicle and a payload71US 9,550,561 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2017
- Multirotor aircraft with enhanced yaw control61US 9,764,829 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2017
- Vertical takeoff and landing aerial vehicle49US 6,691,949 B2The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. · 2004
- Rotary-wing vehicle system49US 7,946,526 B22011