B64U 70/97
Means for guiding the uav to a specific location on the platform
Official title: Means for guiding the UAV to a specific location on the platform, e.g. platform structures preventing landing off-centre
B64U70/97 (Means for guiding the uav to a specific location on the platform) appears on 166 US grants and 207 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64U- Granted patents
- 166
- Published applications
- 207
- Assignees
- 95
- Inventors
- 386
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2011 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2 | 13 |
| 2018 | 7 | 8 |
| 2019 | 13 | 14 |
| 2020 | 8 | 17 |
| 2021 | 15 | 23 |
| 2022 | 14 | 20 |
| 2023 | 13 | 25 |
| 2024 | 29 | 30 |
| 2025 | 38 | 21 |
| 2026 | 23 | 30 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Multi-stage alignment of unmanned aerial vehicles with base stations during docking22 Sep 2026US 12,741,763 B2Skydio, Inc.
- Methods of locking unmanned aerial vehicles to charging hubs in base stations22 Sep 2026US 12,741,764 B2Skydio, Inc.
- Unmanned aerial vehicle landing platform systems and methods15 Sep 2026US 12,735,208 B2FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems ULC
- Landing and alignment of an unmanned aerial vehicle with a base station15 Sep 2026US 12,735,210 B2Skydio, Inc.
- Charging hubs in base stations for unmanned aerial vehicles including locking mechanisms15 Sep 2026US 12,735,211 B2Skydio, Inc.
- UAV Navigation from a Landing Pad to a Track17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274470 A1Wing Aviation LLC
- Docking configurations for aerial vehicles27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250023 A1Zipline International Inc.
- System and method for autonomous lift and descension assist for electronic vertical take off and landing (evtol) vehicles6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225730 A1Rush Group Limited, L.L.C.
- Docking systems and methods for aerial vehicles6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227798 A1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Vehicle Recovery System16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200610 A1The Johns Hopkins University
Most cited
By later US patents
- System, mobile base station and umbilical cabling and tethering (UCAT) assist system75US 10,011,352 B1Working Drones, Inc. · 2018
- Drone marker and landing zone verification65US 10,198,955 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2019
- Unmanned aerial vehicle having spherical loading portion and unmanned ground vehicle therefor60US 8,418,959 B2Pusan National University Industry-University Cooperation Foundation · 2013
- Tethering system and method for remote device50US 8,931,144 B2State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · 2015
- Package delivery by means of an automated multi-copter UAS/UAV dispatched from a conventional delivery vehicle41US 9,915,956 B2Workhorse Group Inc. · 2018