F03H 1/0081
Electromagnetic plasma thrusters
Official title: {Electromagnetic plasma thrusters}
F03H1/0081 (Electromagnetic plasma thrusters) appears on 82 US grants and 103 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F03H- Granted patents
- 82
- Published applications
- 103
- Assignees
- 55
- Inventors
- 222
- Latest grant
- 5 May 2026
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| 2026 | 4 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Heat conditioning through deflection/reflection/absorption of electromagnetic waves5 May 2026US 12,621,921 B2
- Targeted-current-density hall thruster14 Apr 2026US 12,601,330 B1The Regents of the University of Michigan
- Tilt drive for electromagnetic force vectoring10 Feb 2026US 12,545,439 B2
- Micro-propulsion system6 Jan 2026US 12,515,817 B2The George Washington University
- Air-breathing plasma thruster25 Nov 2025US 12,479,604 B2U. S. Department of Energy
- System and method for increasing the kinetic energy of a directional plasma flow10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266271 A1
- Hall-effect propulsion device with magnetic compensation20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243238 A1Exotrail
- Electron cyclotron resonance thruster30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217389 A1Office National D’Etudes Et De Recherches AéRospatiales
- Artificial object control method, artificial object control apparatus, and artificial object including the same28 May 2026US 2026/0145816 A1Muscat Space Engineering Co., Ltd.
- Dynamic Pendulum Thrust Measurement System And Method16 Apr 2026US 2026/0104324 A1National Cheng Kung University
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multi-megawatt pulsed inductive thruster47US 5,207,760 ATRW Inc. · 1993
- Advanced hypersonic magnetic jet/electric turbine engine (AHMJET)38US 8,720,205 B22014
- More efficient RF plasma electric thruster36US 6,293,090 B1New England Space Works, Inc. · 2001
- Hybrid electrothermal/electromagnetic arcjet thruster and thrust-producing method16US 4,866,929 AOlin Corporation · 1989
- Railgun thruster15US 5,439,191 ABoard of Regents, The University of Texas System · 1995