B64U 40/10
On-board mechanical arrangements for adjusting control surfaces or rotors: for adjusting control
Official title: for adjusting control surfaces or rotors
B64U40/10 (On-board mechanical arrangements for adjusting control surfaces or rotors: for adjusting control) appears on 117 US grants and 160 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64U- Granted patents
- 117
- Published applications
- 160
- Assignees
- 86
- Inventors
- 295
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2003 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 2 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 | 3 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2 | 10 |
| 2017 | 1 | 13 |
| 2018 | 7 | 11 |
| 2019 | 10 | 7 |
| 2020 | 16 | 16 |
| 2021 | 8 | 10 |
| 2022 | 9 | 7 |
| 2023 | 17 | 23 |
| 2024 | 9 | 13 |
| 2025 | 13 | 12 |
| 2026 | 14 | 23 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Vertical takeoff and landing aerial vehicle49US 6,691,949 B2The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. · 2004
- Rotary-wing vehicle system49US 7,946,526 B22011
- Elevon control system40US 9,108,713 B2AeroVironment, Inc. · 2015
- Controlled flight of a multicopter experiencing a failure affecting an effector39US 9,856,016 B2ETH Zurich · 2018
- Elevon control system36US 8,985,504 B22015