Electric Braking and Taxiing Systems Patents: Leaders & Trends 2026
- One assignee dominates. the leading filer holds 103 of the 174 records in scope, with the rest spread thinly down to single-digit counts by fifth place.
- Filing activity has cooled from its peak. 2023 was the high-water mark at 20 records, and the 2021→2024 span shows a -63% move (8 to 3) on the complete-year data.
- The field reads as vehicle-brake first, aerospace second. B60T brake-control classes touch 81.0% of records versus 31.6% for B64C aircraft classes, so ground-vehicle brake control logic underpins much of the aerospace-labelled art.
Filing growth compares 2021 (8 records) with 2024 (3) — a three-year span. 2024 is the most recent year we treat as complete: publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so 2025 onwards are still filling in and any growth rate that ends there would understate the field.
What this landscape covers
Electric braking and taxiing systems replace hydraulic actuation and engine-driven nose-wheel movement with electromechanical actuators, wheel hub motors and software-managed clamp force control. The search set defined here pulls 174 published records spanning 2015 through the 2026 data cut-off, built around electric brake actuator and electric taxiing terms cross-referenced against actuator-level features such as ball screw drives, clamp force control, nose wheel drive, wheel hub motors, brake temperature monitoring and actuator jam detection.
That combination narrows the field to records where an electric or electromechanical actuation claim is paired with a specific control or health-monitoring mechanism, rather than general aircraft brake system art. Publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so the most recent one to two years in any trend understate real filing activity.
Filing trends and technology classes
The two views below sit on different denominators: the trend chart counts records by publication year, while the IPC chart counts records by technology class — and a single record can carry more than one class.
Filing trend, 2017-2026
Filings rose from 2 records in 2017 to a peak of 20 in 2023, then eased through the last complete year on record. The 2021-to-2024 window shows an 8-to-3 move, a -63% change; treat 2025 and 2026 as still filling in rather than as evidence of a further decline.
IPC subclass composition
B60T (vehicle brakes and braking) appears in 81.0% of the 174 records in scope, well ahead of B64C (aeroplanes and helicopters) at 31.6% and F16D (clutches and brakes) at 16.7%. Smaller classes covering ground installations, aircraft equipment, control systems and data processing each sit under 5%, marking where electric braking work overlaps with software and comms claims rather than mechanical actuation.
Shares are the percentage of the 174 records in scope. A patent can carry several IPC classes, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
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Electromechanical brake architectures with a hybrid brake control unit and emergency braking
An electromechanical brake system with dual brake control units and dual electromechanical brake actuator controllers, each carrying a monitor circuit cross-coupled to both control units, feeding a first and second wheel and brake assembly. The architecture is built to keep braking authority available if one control path or actuator controller fails.US20260241902A1 — Goodrich Corporation — 2026-08-20
| # | Publication no. | Patent title | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | US20090276133A1 | Aircraft brake control system and method | 83 |
| 2 | US20070084682A1 | Parking brake adjustment for an aircraft having an electric brake system | 53 |
| 3 | US20180297573A1 | Brake Health Indicator Systems Using Input and Output Energy | 41 |
| 4 | US20080030069A1 | Aircraft electrical brake control system architecture | 41 |
| 5 | US20120065816A1 | Systems and methods for dynamically stable braking | 35 |
| 6 | US20090278401A1 | Electromechanical brake system with distributed architecture | 33 |
| 7 | US20080154443A1 | Reduced power mode for an aircraft electric brake system | 32 |
| 8 | WO2008097260A2 | Alleviation of aircraft landing gear loading using a brake control scheme | 31 |
| 9 | US20080099603A1 | Ground towing power architecture for an electric brake system of an aircraft | 24 |
| 10 | US20140156160A1 | System and method for aircraft brake metering to alleviate structural loading | 20 |
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Three patterns matter more than the raw counts: where claim density already sits, what the citation table rewards, and how narrow the growth window really is.
One filer, then a long tail
The leading assignee holds 103 of the 174 records in scope, while fifth place holds only 4 and tenth place 2. Anyone filing here is filing against one dominant portfolio and a wide field of small, single-digit holders rather than a cluster of comparable rivals.
Brake-control logic outweighs airframe-specific claims
B60T (vehicle brakes and braking) touches 81.0% of the 174 records, more than double B64C (aeroplanes and helicopters) at 31.6%. Electric brake actuator and clamp force control claims are largely written as generic brake-control art that happens to cite aircraft applications, not airframe-locked mechanisms.
Growth has narrowed since the 2023 peak
Filings peaked at 20 records in 2023 after climbing steadily from 2017's 2 records. The complete-year data shows an 8-to-3 drop from 2021 to 2024, a -63% move; 2025 and 2026 figures are still filling in under normal publication lag and should not be read as a continuation of that fall.
Citation leaders are older architecture patents
The most-cited records in this set date to the mid-to-late 2000s and describe aircraft brake control system architecture rather than any single actuator component. That is consistent with citation counts favouring records with more time in the corpus, not with those records being the most commercially active today.
Eureka can read the same corpus for gaps instead of for coverage: under-claimed branches adjacent to electric braking and taxiing systems, with the prior art for and against each one.
Who holds the ground, and where activity has stalled
The ranking below is the complete set of 17 assignees this search returns, not a top-50 or top-100 cut. Recent-year momentum is flat across the board, which is consistent with a field where publication lag hides the newest filings.
A single dominant portfolio
The top-ranked assignee holds well over half the records this search returns, spanning both brake actuator hardware and control architecture claims. Co-assignee pairs involving this filer and individual named inventors are the strongest links in the co-filing network, at up to 4 shared records.
A thin second tier
Filing counts fall away quickly after the leader: fifth place holds only 4 records and tenth place just 2. This is a field with one entrenched portfolio and a wide scatter of smaller filers rather than two or three comparably sized competitors.
Momentum has gone quiet across the ranked leaders
Every tracked assignee shows zero or near-zero filings in the latest year, including a -100% year-on-year move for the historic leader. Given the 18-month publication lag, this reads as a reporting gap rather than a genuine stop in R&D activity.
| Assignee | Recent year | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Goodrich Corporation | 1 | — |
| The Boeing Company | 0 | -100% |
| Hydro-Aire Inc. | 0 | — |
| GRIFFITH T TODD | 0 | — |
| GODO ERIK | 0 | — |
| Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG | 0 | — |
| YAMAMOTO DAVID T | 0 | — |
| GODO ERIK L | 0 | — |
Where to take this analysis
The dataset points to a field with one entrenched portfolio, a cooling filing curve through the last complete year, and technology composition that leans toward general brake-control logic rather than airframe-specific mechanisms.
Map the white space claim by claim
Actuator jam detection, brake temperature compensation and wheel hub motor thermal management all sit well below the density of the core B60T brake-control claims. A freedom-to-operate review focused on these branches is more productive than contesting the leader's core architecture claims.
Explore white space in Eureka →Watch for the publication-lag catch-up
The flat 2025-2026 momentum figures are an artefact of an 18-month publication lag, not a real stop in filing. Re-run this landscape in six to twelve months to see whether the 2023 peak repeats or whether the -63% 2021-2024 trend continues.
Set up monitoring in Eureka →Common questions about this landscape
The ranked leaders in this dataset are dominated by one assignee holding 103 of the 174 records in scope, with the remaining 16 ranked assignees spread thinly down to single-digit counts by fifth place. This is a concentrated field around one portfolio rather than a competitive cluster of similarly sized filers. Individual named inventors also appear as assignees, often co-filing with the corporate leader, which suggests inventor-led filings that were later assigned or jointly held.
Filings rose from 2 records in 2017 to a peak of 20 in 2023, then the complete-year data shows an 8-to-3 drop between 2021 and 2024, a -63% change. Because publication typically lags filing by around 18 months, the 2025 and 2026 figures are still filling in and should not be read as confirmation that the decline is continuing. The honest read is that the field grew through the early 2020s and has cooled off its peak, with the trajectory past 2024 still unclear.
Both, and the balance favours ground-vehicle brake-control logic. B60T (vehicle brakes and braking) appears in 81.0% of the 174 records, compared with 31.6% for B64C (aeroplanes and helicopters) and 16.7% for F16D (clutches and brakes). In practice this means a large share of the aerospace-labelled electric braking art is built on brake-control mechanisms and terminology that originated in, or apply equally to, ground vehicle systems.
US20260241902A1, assigned to Goodrich Corporation and published 2026-08-20, describes an electromechanical brake system built around a hybrid brake control unit architecture: dual brake control units, dual electromechanical brake actuator controllers each with a cross-coupled monitor circuit, and dual wheel-and-brake assemblies. Its function is fault tolerance for braking authority, so that a single controller or actuator failure does not remove braking from a wheel assembly. Anyone designing a redundant electric brake architecture should check this filing's specific monitor-circuit cross-coupling before assuming a similar failover design is clear.
The technology composition data shows several branches sitting well below the density of the core brake-control claims: actuator jam detection algorithms, brake-temperature-based clamp force compensation, wheel hub motor thermal management, and nose wheel drive torque control all appear only in the smaller IPC classes (B64F, B64D, G05D, G06F, H04L) rather than the dominant B60T class. These are the sub-areas where claim space looks least occupied relative to the field's overall filing density, though a proper freedom-to-operate check is still needed before filing there.
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