B64U 50/18
Thrust vectoring
B64U50/18 (Thrust vectoring) appears on 86 US grants and 123 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64U- Granted patents
- 86
- Published applications
- 123
- Assignees
- 71
- Inventors
- 227
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 5 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 3 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 4 | 5 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 3 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 7 |
| 2018 | 2 | 9 |
| 2019 | 9 | 16 |
| 2020 | 5 | 15 |
| 2021 | 9 | 10 |
| 2022 | 11 | 14 |
| 2023 | 12 | 13 |
| 2024 | 9 | 6 |
| 2025 | 8 | 5 |
| 2026 | 7 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Thrust vectoring for fluid borne vehicles24 Feb 2026US 12,560,942 B2Autonomous Devices Limited
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- Method for controlling electric flight vehicle17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274461 A1Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Electric flying object17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274465 A1Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Electric flight vehicle17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274466 A1Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Low-noise thrust generation apparatus and unmanned aerial vehicle comprising same30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217391 A1Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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