A01B 69/007
Steering or guiding of agricultural vehicles
Official title: {Steering or guiding of agricultural vehicles, e.g. steering of the tractor to keep the plough in the furrow}
A01B69/007 (Steering or guiding of agricultural vehicles) appears on 1,284 US grants and 1,837 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A01B- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Recent patents
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- Working vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,751,347 B2Kubota Corporation
- Work vehicle, control method, and control system6 Oct 2026US 12,751,348 B2Kubota Corporation
- Systems and methods for automatic field information determination6 Oct 2026US 12,754,552 B2Deere & Company
- Systems and methods for determining a center pivot point of a circular path based on points passed through by a vehicle8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305512 A1AGCO International GmbH
- Systems and methods for determining a center pivot point of a circular path based on a preliminary arc overlaying a digital image8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305513 A1AGCO International GmbH
- Systems and methods for determining a center pivot point of a circular path based on autonomous detection of a preliminary arc8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305514 A1AGCO International GmbH
- A method for cultivating a piece of farmland, and a method and system for generating a cultivation plan8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305515 A1AgXeed Holding B.V.
- Power supply control method, power supply control program, and power supply control system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305516 A1Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sensor-fusion navigator for automated guidance of off-road vehicles289US 6,445,983 B1Case Corporation · 2002
- System and method for planning the operations of an agricultural machine in a field249US 6,236,924 B1Caterpillar Inc. · 2001
- Trajectory path planner for a vision guidance system248US 6,385,515 B1Case Corporation · 2002
- Robot tractors246US 4,482,960 ADiffracto Ltd. · 1984
- Robot tractors231US 4,769,700 ADiffracto Ltd. · 1988