B25J 9/1684
Tracking a line or surface by means of sensors
Official title: {Tracking a line or surface by means of sensors}
B25J9/1684 (Tracking a line or surface by means of sensors) appears on 274 US grants and 325 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B25J- Granted patents
- 274
- Published applications
- 325
- Assignees
- 172
- Inventors
- 719
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2020 | 20 | 32 |
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| 2022 | 20 | 34 |
| 2023 | 18 | 37 |
| 2024 | 26 | 40 |
| 2025 | 37 | 24 |
| 2026 | 20 | 12 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Determining position or orientation of object in three dimensions185US 6,301,763 B1Great Lakes Intellectual Property · 2001
- Vision target based assembly149US 6,317,953 B1LMI-Diffracto · 2001
- Adaptive tracking vision and guidance system145US 4,907,169 AInternational Technical Associates · 1990
- Vision target based assembly139US 6,314,631 B1Great Lakes Intellectual Property · 2001
- Vision target based assembly128US 6,167,607 AGreat Lakes Intellectual Property · 2001