A01K 57/00
Appliances for providing, preventing or catching swarms
Official title: Appliances for providing, preventing or catching swarms; Drone-catching devices
A01K57/00 (Appliances for providing, preventing or catching swarms) appears on 20 US grants and 19 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A01K- Granted patents
- 20
- Published applications
- 19
- Assignees
- 8
- Inventors
- 47
- Latest grant
- 28 Oct 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 2 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Bee nesting box12US 4,628,558 A1986
- Mating chamber for honey bees12US 5,158,497 AState of Oregon acting by and through the Oregon State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University · 1992
- End plug for bee shipping tubes9US 4,718,134 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture · 1988
- Device and method for collecting bee venom by attracting and electrocuting injurious bees8US 5,004,446 A1991
- Specialized contextual drones for virtual fences5US 10,820,574 B2International Business Machines Corporation · 2020