A01M 21/02
Apparatus for mechanical destruction
Official title: Apparatus for mechanical destruction {(hand-tools for uprooting weeds A01B1/16; machines for working soil and for weeding A01B39/18; harvesting machines A01D; cutting implements A01G3/00)}
A01M21/02 (Apparatus for mechanical destruction) appears on 108 US grants and 180 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A01M- Granted patents
- 108
- Published applications
- 180
- Assignees
- 69
- Inventors
- 242
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 4 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 5 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 3 |
| 2015 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 3 | 2 |
| 2017 | 7 | 7 |
| 2018 | 3 | 9 |
| 2019 | 4 | 13 |
| 2020 | 9 | 12 |
| 2021 | 6 | 21 |
| 2022 | 8 | 17 |
| 2023 | 17 | 21 |
| 2024 | 9 | 21 |
| 2025 | 25 | 20 |
| 2026 | 12 | 13 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- System with master-slave architecture for agricultural applications and method for operating the system8 Sep 2026US 12,727,593 B2Tartan Aerial Sense Tech Private Limited
- Mechanical device to selectively defoliate lawn weeds8 Sep 2026US 12,727,594 B2
- Weed control system1 Sep 2026US 12,721,333 B2Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Weed control with an autonomous work device11 Aug 2026US 12,702,127 B2Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Devices and method for protecting crop plants and/or sown seeds against unwanted plants30 Jun 2026US 12,667,097 B2
- Weed deflection device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285460 A1
- Height guide for a cutting system, cutting system and method for guiding the height of such a cutting system10 Sep 2026US 2026/0262627 A1Zürn Harvesting GmbH & Co. KG
- Methods, systems, and apparatus to extract one or more weeds16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198475 A1
- Crop protection system for an agricultural vehicle and associated protection method9 Jul 2026US 2026/0191126 A1NaïO-Technologies
- Integrated systems for weed removal and red imported fire ant control in photovoltaic power plants2 Jul 2026US 2026/0182559 A1Guangdong Ocean University
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for automated odometry calibration for precision agriculture systems31US 9,717,171 B2Blue River Technology Inc. · 2017
- Automatic target recognition and management system20US 10,701,852 B2The University of Sydney · 2020
- Water jet weeder, cultivator, root waterer, and aerator17US 6,634,435 B22003
- Method for autonomously weeding crops in an agricultural field16US 10,455,826 B2FarmWise Labs, Inc. · 2019
- Robot vehicle and method using a robot for an automatic treatment of vegetable organisms16US 10,681,905 B2EcoRobotix SA · 2020