B64U 2101/40
Uavs specially adapted for particular uses or applications: for agriculture or forestry
Official title: for agriculture or forestry operations
B64U2101/40 (Uavs specially adapted for particular uses or applications: for agriculture or forestry) appears on 283 US grants and 473 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64U- Granted patents
- 283
- Published applications
- 473
- Assignees
- 188
- Inventors
- 772
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 3 | 8 |
| 2017 | 7 | 27 |
| 2018 | 11 | 33 |
| 2019 | 21 | 43 |
| 2020 | 20 | 60 |
| 2021 | 32 | 65 |
| 2022 | 32 | 65 |
| 2023 | 43 | 46 |
| 2024 | 41 | 35 |
| 2025 | 45 | 49 |
| 2026 | 27 | 33 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Unmanned aircraft, and method for controlling unmanned aircraft15 Sep 2026US 12,735,206 B2Ishikawa Energy Research Co., Ltd.
- Autonomous vehicle system for wind, solar and agricultural farms25 Aug 2026US 12,715,629 B2Inventus Holdings, LLC
- Sensor plant and method for identifying stressors in crops based on characteristics of sensor plants25 Aug 2026US 12,716,844 B2InnerPlant, Inc.
- Drone-based, airborne sensory system for flood elevation and flood occurrence probability measurements and return periods by proxy measurements and method thereof11 Aug 2026US 12,705,882 B2Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd.
- Agricultural chemical application drone14 Jul 2026US 12,679,567 B2
- Agricultural material ejection apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305519 A1Kubota Corporation
- Control method and apparatus for load of movable platform, and movable platform and medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305523 A1Sz Dji Technology Co., Ltd.
- Work machine8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305531 A1Kubota Corporation
- Aerial vehicle management system and aerial vehicle8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310223 A1Kubota Corporation
- Autonomous energy field1 Oct 2026US 2026/0293799 A1Ds2.0, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- UAV-based sensing for worksite operations110US 9,740,208 B2Deere & Company · 2017
- Aerial farm robot system for crop dusting, planting, fertilizing and other field jobs99US 9,382,003 B2Bee Robotics Corporation · 2016
- Methods for agronomic and agricultural monitoring using unmanned aerial systems92US 9,922,405 B2Climate LLC · 2018
- System, mobile base station and umbilical cabling and tethering (UCAT) assist system75US 10,011,352 B1Working Drones, Inc. · 2018
- Aircraft having a fault tolerant distributed propulsion system65US 10,232,950 B2Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. · 2019