G05D 2109/254
Flying platforms
Official title: {Flying platforms, e.g. multicopters}
G05D2109/254 (Flying platforms) appears on 460 US grants and 850 published applications in this corpus.
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Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Drone for inspection of enclosed space and method thereof113US 8,874,283 B1United Dynamics Advanced Technologies Corporation · 2014
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- Multi-zone battery exchange system79US 9,284,062 B2Sz Dji Technology Co., Ltd. · 2016
- System, mobile base station and umbilical cabling and tethering (UCAT) assist system75US 10,011,352 B1Working Drones, Inc. · 2018
- Systems and methods for UAV battery power backup66US 9,434,267 B2Sz Dji Technology Co., Ltd. · 2016