A01D 41/1278
For automatic steering
Official title: {for automatic steering}
A01D41/1278 (For automatic steering) appears on 237 US grants and 304 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A01D- Granted patents
- 237
- Published applications
- 304
- Assignees
- 64
- Inventors
- 479
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2019 | 3 | 6 |
| 2020 | 5 | 30 |
| 2021 | 8 | 22 |
| 2022 | 17 | 52 |
| 2023 | 26 | 47 |
| 2024 | 34 | 48 |
| 2025 | 50 | 36 |
| 2026 | 32 | 20 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Predictive biomass map generation and control6 Oct 2026US 12,751,362 B2Deere & Company
- Method for route planning15 Sep 2026US 12,736,349 B2Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH
- Combine harvester with grain cart detection8 Sep 2026US 12,727,533 B2CNH Industrial America LLC
- Agricultural system and method for accounting for hill-drift steering during row guidance of harvesters8 Sep 2026US 12,727,537 B2CNH Industrial America LLC
- Autonomous travel method, autonomous travel system, and autonomous travel program1 Sep 2026US 12,721,268 B2Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Automatic travel method, automatic travel program, and automatic travel system10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267344 A1Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Autonomous Agricultural System Including a Guidance System for Detecting a Combine Harvester Via a SWIR Sensor and Causing the Autonomous Agricultural System to Align with the Combine Harvester, and Related Methods27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248069 A1AGCO International GmbH
- Material flow monitoring20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240075 A1
- Header attachment system for agricultural vehicles16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198421 A1Deere & Company
- Vehicles, methods and non-transitory computer-readable media for dynamic operating boundary generation18 Jun 2026US 2026/0165222 A1Deere & Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Non-contact sensing unit for row crop harvester guidance system214US 4,918,441 AFord New Holland, Inc. · 1990
- Coordination of vehicle movement in a field165US 8,738,238 B2Deere & Company · 2014
- Agricultural harvester with robotic control164US 6,336,051 B12002
- Method and system for transferring material between vehicles108US 8,626,406 B2Deere & Company · 2014
- Unloading arrangement for agricultural harvesting vehicles89US 9,675,008 B1CNH Industrial America LLC · 2017