A01D 46/253
Portable motorised fruit pickers
A01D46/253 (Portable motorised fruit pickers) appears on 43 US grants and 67 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A01D- Granted patents
- 43
- Published applications
- 67
- Assignees
- 42
- Inventors
- 154
- Latest grant
- 7 Jul 2026
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| 2020 | 4 | 5 |
| 2021 | 3 | 9 |
| 2022 | 3 | 8 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4 |
| 2024 | 7 | 9 |
| 2025 | 4 | 12 |
| 2026 | 3 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- End-effector7 Jul 2026US 12,672,606 B2Fieldwork Robotics Limited
- Agricultural cutting system and cut-point method23 Jun 2026US 12,660,753 B2Kubota Corporation
- Agricultural cutting system and cut-point method7 Apr 2026US 12,593,753 B2Kubota Corporation
- Agricultural tool and process16 Dec 2025US 12,495,739 B2Kubota Corporation
- Cylindrical coordinate shearing type fruit picking end effector19 Aug 2025US 12,389,829 B2Sichuan Agricultural University
- Autonomous robotic fruit harvesting vehicle9 Jul 2026US 2026/0191142 A1
- Produce harvester18 Jun 2026US 2026/0165246 A1The Regents of the University of California
- Method for generating cut point data, system for generating cut point data, and agricultural machine4 Jun 2026US 2026/0150787 A1Kubota Corporation
- Multi-Arm Robotic Harvesting Apparatus26 Mar 2026US 2026/0083061 A1Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
- Harvesting method11 Dec 2025US 2025/0374857 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fruit picking device18US 5,005,347 ADu-Kedem Projects Ltd. · 1991
- Robotic fruit picking system14US 10,757,861 B2Dogtooth Technologies Limited · 2020
- Fruit picking device12US 5,440,867 A1995
- Fruit picker apparatus with a motor operated cutter12US 7,500,343 B22009
- System and method for drone fleet management for harvesting and dilution11US 11,194,348 B2Tevel Advanced Technologies Ltd. · 2021