B63H 25/04
Automatic
Official title: automatic, e.g. reacting to compass
B63H25/04 (Automatic) appears on 419 US grants and 452 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B63H- Granted patents
- 419
- Published applications
- 452
- Assignees
- 160
- Inventors
- 700
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 7 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 2 | 6 |
| 2004 | 3 | 7 |
| 2005 | 3 | 5 |
| 2006 | 7 | 2 |
| 2007 | 3 | 6 |
| 2008 | 6 | 4 |
| 2009 | 2 | 7 |
| 2010 | 8 | 4 |
| 2011 | 3 | 3 |
| 2012 | 5 | 15 |
| 2013 | 9 | 9 |
| 2014 | 11 | 9 |
| 2015 | 12 | 13 |
| 2016 | 15 | 26 |
| 2017 | 25 | 31 |
| 2018 | 22 | 19 |
| 2019 | 20 | 31 |
| 2020 | 19 | 26 |
| 2021 | 25 | 33 |
| 2022 | 26 | 26 |
| 2023 | 23 | 43 |
| 2024 | 35 | 44 |
| 2025 | 41 | 43 |
| 2026 | 45 | 38 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Marine propulsion system and method with single rear drive and lateral marine drive22 Sep 2026US 12,741,732 B2Brunswick Corporation
- Controlling movement of at least one steering device on a watercraft15 Sep 2026US 12,735,166 B2Dometic Marine Canada Inc.
- Submersible device for underwater sonar imagery15 Sep 2026US 12,736,669 B2Navico Group Americas, LLC
- Method of controlling vessel, control system and vessel18 Aug 2026US 12,709,373 B2ABB Schweiz AG
- System for and method of selecting control modes of watercraft18 Aug 2026US 12,709,374 B2Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
- Automatic docking device, automatic docking system, automatic docking method, and non-transitory computer readable medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307774 A1Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Propulsion system of boat1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296624 A1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Automatic vessel control system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296625 A1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Ship control device, a ship control method, and a ship control program24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285467 A1Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
- Control device for marine propulsion system and marine vessel10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264828 A1Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Wave power components139US 8,287,323 B2Liquid Robotics, Inc. · 2012
- Autopilot-based steering and maneuvering system for boats114US 6,230,642 B1The Talaria Company, LLC · 2001
- System and method for controlling a trolling motor112US 8,761,976 B2Johnson Outdoors Inc. · 2014
- System and method for controlling a marine vessel94US 8,480,445 B22013
- Marine vessel running controlling apparatus, marine vessel maneuvering supporting system and marine vessel each including the marine vessel running controlling apparatus, and marine vessel running controlling method93US 6,994,046 B2Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha · 2006