B64U 70/80
Vertical take-off or landing
Official title: Vertical take-off or landing, e.g. using rockets (rotorcrafts B64U10/10; VTOL aircraft B64U10/20)
B64U70/80 (Vertical take-off or landing) appears on 448 US grants and 538 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64U- Granted patents
- 448
- Published applications
- 538
- Assignees
- 239
- Inventors
- 919
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 2 | 1 |
| 2002 | 3 | 2 |
| 2003 | 4 | 6 |
| 2004 | 3 | 0 |
| 2005 | 1 | 4 |
| 2006 | 3 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 3 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 5 |
| 2010 | 1 | 7 |
| 2011 | 2 | 9 |
| 2012 | 6 | 4 |
| 2013 | 6 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2 | 9 |
| 2015 | 10 | 13 |
| 2016 | 6 | 37 |
| 2017 | 28 | 61 |
| 2018 | 27 | 44 |
| 2019 | 49 | 54 |
| 2020 | 51 | 57 |
| 2021 | 32 | 53 |
| 2022 | 45 | 30 |
| 2023 | 42 | 49 |
| 2024 | 48 | 32 |
| 2025 | 37 | 28 |
| 2026 | 12 | 22 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Rotational take-off and landing of aerial vehicles29 Sep 2026US 12,747,043 B1
- Ejection apparatus25 Aug 2026US 12,715,590 B2Parazero Technologies Ltd
- Landing facility, landing method18 Aug 2026US 12,709,407 B2Aeronext Inc.
- Configuration for vertical take-off and landing system for aerial vehicles4 Aug 2026US 12,698,080 B2Jetoptera, Inc.
- Automated aircraft recovery system28 Jul 2026US 12,693,683 B2Kitty Hawk Corporation
- Autonomous delivery vehicle and system27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249993 A1Zipline International Inc.
- Vertical take-off and landing aircraft and propulsion assembly20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242058 A1Burl Aerospace Pty Ltd
- Vertical take-off and landing (vtol) winged air vehicle with complementary angled rotors30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217367 A1AeroVironment, Inc.
- Systems and Methods for Tethered Drones30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217384 A1Blue Vigil LLC
- Foldable rotary wing aircraft9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192911 A1Lockheed Martin Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sonotube compatible unmanned aerial vehicle and system413US 6,056,237 A2000
- Horizontal and vertical take off and landing unmanned aerial vehicle222US 5,890,441 A1999
- Modular flying vehicle133US 8,453,962 B22013
- Arrestment system129US 4,311,290 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy · 1982
- Unmanned airborne reconnaissance system127US 7,210,654 B1Mission Technologies, Inc. · 2007