A47L 2201/02
Docking stations
Official title: Docking stations; Docking operations
A47L2201/02 (Docking stations) appears on 756 US grants and 1,163 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A47L- Granted patents
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- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 84 | 133 |
| 2025 | 82 | 121 |
| 2026 | 70 | 111 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Mobile robots and their control system575US 6,389,329 B12002
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- Mobile work robot system511US 5,959,423 AMinolta Co., Ltd. · 1999
- Automatic machine and device for floor dusting439US 5,787,545 A1998
- Autonomous robot auto-docking and energy management systems and methods436US 7,332,890 B2iRobot Corporation · 2008