F41J 9/08
Airborne targets
Official title: Airborne targets, e.g. drones, kites, balloons {(aircraft for towing targets B64D3/02)}
F41J9/08 (Airborne targets) appears on 102 US grants and 71 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F41J- Granted patents
- 102
- Published applications
- 71
- Assignees
- 63
- Inventors
- 178
- Latest grant
- 6 Jan 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 5 | 9 |
| 2004 | 4 | 6 |
| 2005 | 2 | 1 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5 |
| 2007 | 1 | 4 |
| 2008 | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | 4 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 3 |
| 2011 | 5 | 2 |
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| 2018 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 3 | 1 |
| 2020 | 5 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Methods and apparatus for pointing logic in aircraft6 Jan 2026US 12,516,907 B2The Boeing Company
- Open field game arrangement comprising responsive targets23 Dec 2025US 12,504,259 B2Off Course Productions, Inc.
- Decoy target, system and method for protecting an object17 Jun 2025US 12,332,031 B2Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
- Toy copter ring launcher with axially stacked ring magazine and improved copter ring27 May 2025US 12,313,372 B2
- Air disc target13 May 2025US 12,298,114 B2Broken Arrow Marketing, Inc.
- Shooting Target23 Jul 2026US 2026/0210678 A1AOB Products Company
- Kite launching and landing guide device2 Oct 2025US 2025/0305480 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Open Field Game Arrangement Comprising Responsive Targets22 May 2025US 2025/0164220 A1Off Course Productions, Inc.
- Methods and apparatus for pointing logic in aircraft27 Mar 2025US 2025/0102278 A1The Boeing Company
- Air disc target20 Feb 2025US 2025/0060200 A1Broken Arrow Marketing, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Self-powered tethered decoy for heat-seeking transport aircraft missile defense70US 7,028,947 B2MLHO, Inc. · 2006
- Drone-target hunting/shooting system48US 9,605,926 B1DuckDrone, LLC · 2017
- Electronically configurable towed decoy for dispensing infrared emitting flares47US 6,055,909 ARaytheon Company · 2000
- Athletic swinging training system, method, and apparatus42US 8,668,602 B12014
- Drone-target hunting/shooting system38US 9,816,783 B1DuckDrone, LLC · 2017