B62D 57/028
Having wheels and mechanical legs
Official title: having wheels and mechanical legs (B62D57/024 takes precedence; ground-engaging vehicle fittings for supporting, lifting or manoeuvring the vehicle, wholly or in part B60S9/00)
B62D57/028 (Having wheels and mechanical legs) appears on 111 US grants and 195 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B62D- Granted patents
- 111
- Published applications
- 195
- Assignees
- 104
- Inventors
- 387
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 11 | 26 |
| 2025 | 13 | 32 |
| 2026 | 17 | 34 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Method and apparatus for controlling wheel-legged robot23 Jun 2026US 12,661,784 B2Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
- Hybrid vehicle for use in lunar exploration16 Jun 2026US 12,654,791 B2Hyundai Motor Company
- Hybrid vehicle with a variable geometry chassis16 Jun 2026US 12,654,792 B2Hyundai Motor Company
- Reaction wheel systems for fall direction control in dynamically stable robots and related technology17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277221 A1Agility Robotics, Inc.
- Parcel delivery method, using a delivery van and at least one delivery robot17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277241 A1RIVR Technologies AG
- Last-mile delivery robot and method17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277242 A1RIVR Technologies AG
- Robot10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264780 A1LG Electronics Inc.
- Control method and apparatus for robot, device, and storage medium3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259566 A1Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Adjustable diameter wheel assembly, and methods and vehicles using same158US 6,860,346 B2Regents of the University of Minnesota · 2005
- Method for surmounting an obstacle by a robot vehicle102US 5,372,211 AThe United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1994
- Battery powered stair-climbing wheelchair77US 6,484,829 B12002
- Mobile robot65US 6,144,180 A2000
- Robot and drone array49US 10,890,921 B22021