H04B 7/18506
Communications with or from aircraft, i.e. aeronautical mobile service
Official title: {Communications with or from aircraft, i.e. aeronautical mobile service}
H04B7/18506 (Communications with or from aircraft, i.e. aeronautical mobile service) appears on 2,252 US grants and 2,441 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04B- Granted patents
- 2,252
- Published applications
- 2,441
- Assignees
- 595
- Inventors
- 3,649
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 43 | 50 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Initial access for message relaying using air-to- ground connections6 Oct 2026US 12,756,454 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Dynamic signal quality criteria for satellite terminal installations8 Sep 2026US 12,732,834 B2ViaSat, Inc.
- Dynamic channel selection for unmanned aerial vehicles1 Sep 2026US 12,726,260 B2Skydio, Inc.
- Control system and method for providing an alert indication25 Aug 2026US 12,718,697 B2Honeywell International Inc.
- Application based air traffic control management communication25 Aug 2026US 12,718,698 B2Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co.KG
- 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
- 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
- Transaction dispatcher for a passenger entertainment system, method and article of manufacture300US 6,813,777 B1Rockwell Collins, Inc. · 2004
- Passenger service and entertainment system for supplying frequency-multiplexed video, audio, and television game software signals to passenger seat terminals286US 4,866,515 ASony Corporation · 1989