A01D 46/20
Platforms with lifting and lowering devices
A01D46/20 (Platforms with lifting and lowering devices) appears on 39 US grants and 33 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A01D- Granted patents
- 39
- Published applications
- 33
- Assignees
- 29
- Inventors
- 118
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 1 |
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| 2010 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2015 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2017 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 5 |
| 2020 | 3 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026 | 2 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Autonomous system for automatic picking and boxing of fruits and method of maneuvering same29 Sep 2026US 12,745,708 B2Metomotion Ltd.
- Vehicle platform rotary support17 Feb 2026US 12,550,822 B2Pek Automotive D.O.O.
- Tree fruit or nut harvester to minimize machine passes in the orchard11 Mar 2025US 12,245,551 B2
- System and method for protecting harvested fruits during harvesting18 Feb 2025US 12,225,852 B2Tevel Aerobotics Technologies
- Robotic system for harvesting and maintaining date palms27 Feb 2024US 11,910,751 B1King Saud University
- Produce harvester18 Jun 2026US 2026/0165246 A1The Regents of the University of California
- Multi-Arm Robotic Harvesting Apparatus26 Mar 2026US 2026/0083061 A1Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
- Individual fruit harvest assister28 Aug 2025US 2025/0268140 A1Move & Pick Ltd.
- Harvesting apparatus including a shaker head and blower, and related methods21 Aug 2025US 2025/0261591 A1Flory Industries
- Mobile autonomous agricultural system5 Dec 2024US 2024/0397871 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Mobile system for improving the picking and preliminary processing of apples, citrus, stone fruit and like objects11US 7,882,686 B2Picker Technologies LLC · 2011
- Extractor fan with wear indicator10US 10,344,993 B2Deere & Company · 2019
- Guide chute for dropping articles10US 4,750,602 AToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha · 1988
- Fruit harvesting machine10US 5,007,772 A1991
- Elevatable two-part scaffold for picking fruit7US 4,074,819 A1978