Trends in Patent Applications for Flying Cars

Development trends in urban air mobility

2022/01/18

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Trends in Patent Applications for Flying Cars
EHANG group "Multi-Rotor Passenger-Carrying Aircraft"　
Northwestern Polytechnical University "Combined type vertical take-off and landing long-endurance electric unmanned aerial vehicle"
Kitty Hawk "Multicopter with boom-mounted rotors"
Beihang University "Multi-Rotor Passenger-Carrying Aircraft"
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics "Short-distance / vertical take-off and landing aircraft adopting variant undercarriage"
Foshan Shenfeng "Multi-rotor manned vehicle"
Uber Technologies "Safe Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft Payload Assignment"
Airbus Helicopters "Multirotor Aircraft with an Airframe and a Thrust Producing Units Arrangement"
Volocopter "Aircraft (multirotor aircraft with airframe and thrust generation unit arrangement)"
The Aurora Flight Sciences "Retractable Propulsor Assemblies for Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Aircraft"

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This report created by MarkLines focuses on a number of recent technical topics surrounding the automotive industry and is based on patent information from the “Technology Information Distribution Service - swimy” obtained by the Toyota Technical Development Corporation (TTDC). The two business areas of TTDC are in the fields of intellectual property and measurement control solutions. The intellectual property (IP) side of TTDC is involved in the collection and analysis of information on automotive technology developments globally, and provides services such as consulting for research planning, applying for patents in foreign languages, and technical translation.

Flying cars, also known as urban air mobility, have been attracting much attention recently, and are being researched and actively developed by companies in various industries including the aviation, automobile, delivery, and internet industries, as well as by universities. Currently, test operations for practical use are being actively carried out. From the patent applications related to "flying cars," we can determine the development trends of the major players.

Source: Technical information distribution service - swimy　URL: https://ip.toyota-td.jp/en/service6/
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