F41H 11/02
Anti-aircraft or anti-guided missile or anti-torpedo defence installations or systems
Official title: Anti-aircraft or anti-guided missile {or anti-torpedo} defence installations or systems (cartridges or missiles for producing smoke or for dispensing radar chaff or infrared material F42B5/15, F42B12/48, F42B12/70; {informative reference: details of radar or sonar systems G01S7/00; jamming or electronic countermeasures G01S7/38, G01S7/495, H04K3/00})
F41H11/02 (Anti-aircraft or anti-guided missile or anti-torpedo defence installations or systems) appears on 593 US grants and 585 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F41H- Granted patents
- 593
- Published applications
- 585
- Assignees
- 270
- Inventors
- 1,222
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 4 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 0 |
| 2002 | 6 | 5 |
| 2003 | 10 | 13 |
| 2004 | 10 | 12 |
| 2005 | 13 | 8 |
| 2006 | 12 | 19 |
| 2007 | 15 | 17 |
| 2008 | 15 | 23 |
| 2009 | 17 | 29 |
| 2010 | 12 | 19 |
| 2011 | 35 | 18 |
| 2012 | 23 | 36 |
| 2013 | 24 | 7 |
| 2014 | 20 | 18 |
| 2015 | 17 | 12 |
| 2016 | 16 | 25 |
| 2017 | 18 | 29 |
| 2018 | 23 | 41 |
| 2019 | 28 | 47 |
| 2020 | 49 | 47 |
| 2021 | 39 | 22 |
| 2022 | 36 | 37 |
| 2023 | 22 | 26 |
| 2024 | 33 | 30 |
| 2025 | 19 | 21 |
| 2026 | 24 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method for protecting an object from a radar-guided missile15 Sep 2026US 12,736,311 B2Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
- Flying object coping system, surveillance ground center, coping ground center, communication route search device, flight path prediction device, and coping asset selection device25 Aug 2026US 12,715,616 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- High energy laser defense weapon system with automated UAS detection and classification functionality25 Aug 2026US 12,716,695 B2Kord Technologies, LLC
- Air-based laser counter-countermeasure system25 Aug 2026US 12,717,351 B2Textron Systems Corporation
- Air defense system for anti-aircraft combat comprizing counter counter measures device to trigger the counter measure of the aircraft prior launching anti-aircraft missile at the aircraft28 Jul 2026US 12,693,096 B2Carboteh Technologies D.O.O.
- Drone-Defense Net Systems and Methods17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276349 A1High Impact Technology, L.L.C.
- Countermeasure10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266583 A1Mbda UK Limited
- System employing an event camera for synchronized response to fast approaching objects10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268674 A1Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.
- Communication route search device and flying object coping system20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242069 A1Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Single-Tape Device for Damaging Unmanned Aerial Vehicles11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160529 A1
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- LIDAR light fence to cue long range LIDAR of target drone156US 10,408,936 B2Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. · 2019
- Systems and methods for detecting, tracking and identifying small unmanned systems such as drones139US 10,281,570 B2XiDrone Systems, Inc. · 2019
- Deterrent for unmanned aerial systems135US 11,035,929 B2XiDrone Systems, Inc. · 2021
- Counter-unmanned aerial vehicle system and method134US 9,085,362 B1Lockheed Martin Corporation · 2015