H04B 7/18502
Airborne stations
Official title: {Airborne stations}
H04B7/18502 (Airborne stations) appears on 3,206 US grants and 3,538 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04B- Granted patents
- 3,206
- Published applications
- 3,538
- Assignees
- 812
- Inventors
- 5,057
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 27 | 79 |
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| 2024 | 255 | 213 |
| 2025 | 195 | 184 |
| 2026 | 91 | 79 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Enhanced processing to discriminate between ADS B traffic/tracks with duplicate aircraft addresses6 Oct 2026US 12,755,636 B2BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
- Adaptive phase-changing devices for non-terrestrial networks6 Oct 2026US 12,756,453 B2Google Inc.
- Initial access for message relaying using air-to- ground connections6 Oct 2026US 12,756,454 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Aerial user equipment (UE) policy configuration based on aerial flight zones6 Oct 2026US 12,757,104 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Interference suppression method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device6 Oct 2026US 12,757,239 B2Zte Corporation
- Network creation process for internet supply to the earth's complete land surface, the payload and aircraft enabling its implementation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312671 A1Prodose
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Privacy Controls1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301588 A1Skydio, Inc.
- Interfaces for aircraft servers24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291602 A1ViaSat, Inc.
- Energy harvesting switch integrated with multiple gateways to cabin network17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280450 A1BAE Systems Controls Inc.
- Enhanced communication with terrestrial networks for aerial vehicles3 Sep 2026US 2026/0261328 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ground link with on-board security surveillance system for aircraft and other commercial vehicles475US 6,246,320 B12001
- Airborne broadband communication network413US 6,018,659 AThe Boeing Company · 2000
- Apparatus for distributed airborne wireless communications354US 8,897,770 B1Sunlight Photonics Inc. · 2014
- Wirelessly controlling unmanned aircraft and accessing associated surveillance data318US 7,581,702 B2Insitu, Inc. · 2009
- System for integrating an airborne wireless cellular network with terrestrial wireless cellular networks and the public switched telephone network310US 7,113,780 B2AirCell, Inc. · 2006