B25J 19/021
Optical sensing devices
Official title: {Optical sensing devices}
B25J19/021 (Optical sensing devices) appears on 2,300 US grants and 2,937 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B25J- Granted patents
- 2,300
- Published applications
- 2,937
- Assignees
- 1,144
- Inventors
- 6,190
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2005 | 10 | 26 |
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| 2019 | 113 | 210 |
| 2020 | 175 | 313 |
| 2021 | 164 | 299 |
| 2022 | 232 | 296 |
| 2023 | 270 | 311 |
| 2024 | 267 | 320 |
| 2025 | 306 | 269 |
| 2026 | 198 | 236 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Disturbance compensation in computer-assisted devices6 Oct 2026US 12,752,421 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- System and method for calibration of humanoid robots6 Oct 2026US 12,752,428 B2Figure Ai Inc.
- Control device and detection system6 Oct 2026US 12,752,433 B2Fanuc Corporation
- Robot systems, methods, control modules, and computer program products that leverage large language models29 Sep 2026US 12,746,666 B2Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation
- Robot systems, methods, control modules, and computer program products that leverage large language models29 Sep 2026US 12,746,669 B2Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation
- Apparatus, system, and method of docking for autonomous robot navigation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307238 A1Jabil Inc.
- Software compensated robotics8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307243 A1Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation
- Apparatus and method for 3d scene graph-based spatial exploration for robot8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307250 A1Hyundai Motor Company
- System for real-time precision calibration of robots based on machine vision8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307262 A1BRILS Co., Ltd.
- Vision-guided robotics for in-line mushroom packaging and weight determination and control8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307267 A1University of Maryland, College Park
Most cited
By later US patents
- Alignment of master and slave in a minimally invasive surgical apparatus2,565US 6,364,888 B1Intuitive Surgical, Inc. · 2002
- Robotic apparatus2,381US 6,786,896 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2004
- Apparatus and method for performing computer enhanced surgery with articulated instrument1,896US 6,223,100 B1SRI International · 2001
- Robotic surgery system including position sensors using fiber bragg gratings1,733US 7,930,065 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2011
- Surgical method1,654US 6,963,792 B1SRI International · 2005