G05D 2109/23
Vertical take-off and landing [vtol] aircraft
Official title: {Vertical take-off and landing [VTOL] aircraft; Short take-off and landing [STOL, STOVL] aircraft}
G05D2109/23 (Vertical take-off and landing [vtol] aircraft) appears on 120 US grants and 163 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G05D- Granted patents
- 120
- Published applications
- 163
- Assignees
- 58
- Inventors
- 258
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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Recent patents
- Methods, and unmanned aerial systems for obtaining meteorological data6 Oct 2026US 12,754,345 B2Alveo AB
- Flying apparatus, aircraft, and method for controlling flight of flying apparatus29 Sep 2026US 12,748,442 B2
- Dynamic aircraft routing1 Sep 2026US 12,725,099 B2Joby Aero, Inc.
- Control margin display methods and systems25 Aug 2026US 12,715,605 B2Honeywell Aerospace US LLC
- Dynamic aircraft routing11 Aug 2026US 12,705,551 B2Joby Aero, Inc.
- Systems and methods for vertical takeoff and landing vehicle with stator stabilization10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264849 A1MagLev Aero Inc.
- Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Aircraft Noise Signature Mitigation10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268241 A1Joby Aero, Inc.
- System and methods for aircraft energy optimization30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217377 A1Archer Aviation Inc.
- Health based actuator allocation23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208878 A1Kitty Hawk Corporation
- Fixed-Time Sliding Mode Control Method and System for Tiltrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Prescribed Performance16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202848 A1Guangdong University of Technology
Most cited
By later US patents
- Air transportation systems and methods57US 10,860,115 B12020
- Dynamic aircraft routing41US 10,593,215 B2Uber Technologies, Inc. · 2020
- Unmanned aerial vehicle modular command priority determination and filtering system35US 9,658,619 B1Unmanned Innovation, Inc. · 2017
- System, a method and a computer program product for maneuvering of an air vehicle with tiltable propulsion unit35US 9,731,818 B2Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. · 2017
- Online optimization-based flight control system18US 10,370,099 B2Kitty Hawk Corporation · 2019