B64U 70/99
Means for retaining the uav on the platform
Official title: Means for retaining the UAV on the platform, e.g. dogs or magnets
B64U70/99 (Means for retaining the uav on the platform) appears on 154 US grants and 204 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64U- Granted patents
- 154
- Published applications
- 204
- Assignees
- 114
- Inventors
- 433
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 23 | 28 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and carrier platforms therefor29 Sep 2026US 12,747,044 B2Elbit Systems C4I and Cyber Ltd.
- 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.
- Portable cooling platform for unmanned autonomous aerial vehicle landing and takeoff, and alignment method thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307831 A1Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Docking configurations for aerial vehicles27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250023 A1Zipline International Inc.
- Vehicle based drone6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225742 A1Bentley Motors Limited
- Landing pad for aerial vehicle with granule-based locking mechanism16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200593 A1Drone Lander Ltd.
- Steerable dependent vehicle for unmanned aerial vehicles16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200612 A1Zipline International Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multi-use UAV docking station systems and methods430US 9,387,928 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2016
- Multi-use unmanned aerial vehicle docking station174US 9,527,605 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2016
- Apparatus for capturing, securing and traversing remotely piloted vehicles and methods therefor122US 5,039,034 AIndal Technologies Inc. · 1991
- Airborne, tethered, remotely stabilized surveillance platform66US 8,602,349 B22013
- Methods and apparatus for reconfigurable power exchange for multiple UAV types58US 9,783,075 B2Asylon, Inc. · 2017