H01Q 1/081
Inflatable antennas
Official title: {Inflatable antennas}
H01Q1/081 (Inflatable antennas) appears on 76 US grants and 64 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01Q- Granted patents
- 76
- Published applications
- 64
- Assignees
- 53
- Inventors
- 140
- Latest grant
- 16 Dec 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Compactible antenna for satellite communications16 Dec 2025US 12,500,326 B2L'Garde, Inc.
- Compactable structures for deployment in space14 Oct 2025US 12,444,826 B2L'Garde, Inc.
- Mobile satellite communication system22 Apr 2025US 12,284,025 B2
- Deployable antenna apparatus with inflate to latch mechanism21 Jan 2025US 12,206,156 B2ViaSat, Inc.
- Foldable/deployable structure comprising a deployable mast18 Jun 2024US 12,012,771 B2Anywaves
- Compactible Antenna for Satellite Communications12 Mar 2026US 2026/0074410 A1L'Garde, Inc.
- Compactable Structures for Deployment in Space15 Jan 2026US 2026/0018775 A1L'Garde, Inc.
- Inflatable antenna structures and methods of manufacture25 Dec 2025US 2025/0392030 A1Remarkable Technologies, Inc.
- Deployable antenna apparatus with inflate to latch mechanism29 May 2025US 2025/0174872 A1ViaSat, Inc.
- Mobile satellite10 Apr 2025US 2025/0119206 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Space deployable antenna structure tensioned by hinged spreader-standoff elements distributed around inflatable hoop49US 5,990,851 AHarris Corporation · 1999
- Deployable antenna37US 7,126,553 B1The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2006
- Rigidizable inflatable structure36US 5,579,609 ATracor, Inc. · 1996
- Emergency passive radar locating device33US 6,300,893 B1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy · 2001
- Pressurized antenna for electronic warfare sensors and jamming equipment32US 6,816,128 B1Rockwell Collins, Inc. · 2004