F42B 12/365
Projectiles transmitting information to a remote location using optical or electronic means
Official title: {Projectiles transmitting information to a remote location using optical or electronic means (F42B12/385 takes precedence)}
F42B12/365 (Projectiles transmitting information to a remote location using optical or electronic means) appears on 180 US grants and 168 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F42B- Granted patents
- 180
- Published applications
- 168
- Assignees
- 93
- Inventors
- 363
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Projectile with antenna6 Oct 2026US 12,754,000 B2Bae Systems Bofors AB
- Simulated telescopic mortar bomb2 Dec 2025US 12,487,065 B2Cubic Corporation
- Archery projectile facility7 Oct 2025US 12,435,961 B2Archery Intelligence, LLC
- Projectile with EW payload21 Jan 2025US 12,203,734 B2Insights International Holdings, LLC
- Programmable system and method for a munition31 Dec 2024US 12,181,264 B2BAE SYSTEMS plc
- Improvements in and relating to live monitoring of projectiles24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287314 A1BAE SYSTEMS plc
- Projectile delivery systems and weaponized aerial vehicles and methods including same19 Feb 2026US 2026/0048842 A1Corvid Technologies LLC
- Archery projectile facility8 Jan 2026US 2026/0009624 A1Archery Intelligence, LLC
- Trackable ammunition1 Jan 2026US 2026/0002763 A1
- Instrumented Ammunition Round11 Dec 2025US 2025/0377183 A1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sonotube compatible unmanned aerial vehicle and system413US 6,056,237 A2000
- Covert sensor emplacement using autorotational delivery mechanism223US 8,172,173 B2BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. · 2012
- Signal transmission surveillance system216US 8,001,901 B2The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy · 2011
- Unmanned airborne reconnaissance system127US 7,210,654 B1Mission Technologies, Inc. · 2007
- Method of autonomous target acquisition94US 4,267,562 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army · 1981