B64U 50/37
Charging when not in flight
B64U50/37 (Charging when not in flight) appears on 496 US grants and 657 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64U- Granted patents
- 496
- Published applications
- 657
- Assignees
- 261
- Inventors
- 1,163
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5 |
| 2016 | 11 | 34 |
| 2017 | 25 | 54 |
| 2018 | 37 | 67 |
| 2019 | 36 | 67 |
| 2020 | 53 | 68 |
| 2021 | 47 | 75 |
| 2022 | 58 | 66 |
| 2023 | 69 | 65 |
| 2024 | 70 | 59 |
| 2025 | 50 | 36 |
| 2026 | 31 | 57 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Charging connection device for drone6 Oct 2026US 12,752,646 B2Argosdyne Co. Ltd.
- Autonomous inspection system and method29 Sep 2026US 12,748,424 B2T-Mobile USA, Inc.
- Aerial drone navigation system with lidar mapping22 Sep 2026US 12,743,734 B2
- Landing and alignment of an unmanned aerial vehicle with a base station15 Sep 2026US 12,735,210 B2Skydio, Inc.
- Autonomous vehicle system for wind, solar and agricultural farms25 Aug 2026US 12,715,629 B2Inventus Holdings, LLC
- Multi-drone systems and methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310226 A1UAVPatent Corp.
- System and method for providing entertainment, supervision or surveillance services1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296693 A1Egida S.R.L. O, In Forma Abbreviata, Eg S.R.L.
- Customizable Sequencing on UAV Holding Systems17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274469 A1Wing Aviation LLC
- UAV Holding and Charging Structure17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274471 A1Wing Aviation LLC
- Aerial operation support and real-time management17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277218 A1Sz Dji Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multi-use UAV docking station systems and methods430US 9,387,928 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2016
- Systems and methods for UAV docking417US 9,056,676 B1Sz Dji Technology Co., Ltd. · 2015
- Unmanned aerial vehicle base station367US 8,511,606 B1The Boeing Company · 2013
- Method of actively controlling winch swing via modulated uptake and release324US 9,422,139 B1Google Inc. · 2016
- Power line sentry charging317US 7,398,946 B1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force · 2008