A01B 69/003
Steering or guiding of machines or implements pushed or pulled by or
Official title: {Steering or guiding of machines or implements pushed or pulled by or mounted on agricultural vehicles such as tractors, e.g. by lateral shifting of the towing connection}
A01B69/003 (Steering or guiding of machines or implements pushed or pulled by or) appears on 339 US grants and 381 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A01B- Granted patents
- 339
- Published applications
- 381
- Assignees
- 131
- Inventors
- 701
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 21 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Methods of communicating aspects of AG based operations25 Aug 2026US 12,713,994 B2Kinze Manufacturing, Inc.
- Header transport with steerable walking tandem axles11 Aug 2026US 12,702,080 B2Unverferth Manufacturing Company, Inc.
- Grain cart-specific control system for automated grain cart unloading4 Aug 2026US 12,696,845 B2Deere & Company
- Systems and methods for surveying an agricultural environment on a moving platform23 Jun 2026US 12,660,729 B2Verdant Robotics, Inc.
- Apparatus, systems and methods for steerable toolbars16 Jun 2026US 12,653,085 B2Ag Leader Technology
- System and method for detecting and avoiding becoming mired8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305517 A1Deere & Company
- Autonomous Agricultural System Including a Cart Management System for Identifying Connections Between an Agricultural Vehicle and a Cart of the Autonomous Agricultural System and Controlling Operation of the Cart According to the Identified Connections and Connections and Related Methods27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252108 A1AGCO International GmbH
- Assistance system and method for generating virtual field boundaries for an agricultural territory to be cultivated20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240066 A1CLAAS Tractor SAS
- Control units, nodes, system, and method for transmitting and communicating data20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240070 A1Kinze Manufacturing, Inc.
- Alignment markers for towing assemblies6 Aug 2026US 2026/0223760 A1Deere & Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for implement steering for agricultural vehicles120US 6,865,465 B2CSI Wireless Inc. · 2005
- GNSS guidance and machine control111US 8,639,416 B2Agjunction LLC · 2014
- Articulated equipment position control system and method98US 7,162,348 B2Hemisphere GPS LLC · 2007
- System for coordinating agricultural vehicle control for loading a truck92US 9,529,364 B2CNH Industrial America LLC · 2016
- GPS controlled guidance system for farm tractor/implement combination89US 7,623,952 B2AIL Corporation · 2009