G05D 1/0676
Specially adapted for landing
Official title: {specially adapted for landing}
G05D1/0676 (Specially adapted for landing) appears on 766 US grants and 719 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G05D- Granted patents
- 766
- Published applications
- 719
- Assignees
- 264
- Inventors
- 1,415
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 47 | 21 |
| 2025 | 26 | 7 |
| 2026 | 6 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) landing systems6 Oct 2026US 12,756,053 B2United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
- Aeronautical obstacle knowledge network8 Sep 2026US 12,729,021 B2The Boeing Company
- Aerial vehicle powering off method and device, and aerial vehicle18 Aug 2026US 12,709,420 B2Sz Dji Technology Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for UAV docking10 Mar 2026US 12,570,417 B2Sz Dji Technology Co., Ltd.
- Method for landing an aircraft which takes off and lands vertically, aircraft and landing system27 Jan 2026US 12,534,222 B2Wingcopter GmbH
- Systems and methods for uav docking18 Jun 2026US 2026/0167364 A1Sz Dji Technology Co., Ltd.
- Landing an autonomous drone with gestures12 Mar 2026US 2026/0073796 A1Snap Inc.
- Locking mechanism and container for delivering items6 Nov 2025US 2025/0343313 A1United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
- Vision-Based Landing System14 Aug 2025US 2025/0259457 A1Joby Aero, Inc.
- Unmanned aerial vehicle severe low-power protection method and unmanned aerial vehicle7 Aug 2025US 2025/0251730 A1Autel Robotics Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods for UAV docking417US 9,056,676 B1Sz Dji Technology Co., Ltd. · 2015
- Automated package delivery to a delivery receptacle324US 9,244,147 B1Google Inc. · 2016
- Terrain awareness system184US 5,839,080 AAlliedSignal Inc. · 1998
- Cooperative system and method for precise autonomous delivery147US 9,412,280 B12016
- Systems, devices and methods delivering energy using an uncrewed autonomous vehicle129US 9,778,653 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2017