B65G 61/00
Use of pick-up or transfer devices or of manipulators for stacking or
Official title: Use of pick-up or transfer devices or of manipulators for stacking or de-stacking articles not otherwise provided for
B65G61/00 (Use of pick-up or transfer devices or of manipulators for stacking or) appears on 885 US grants and 980 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65G- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 980
- Assignees
- 547
- Inventors
- 2,016
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2023 | 78 | 103 |
| 2024 | 90 | 104 |
| 2025 | 92 | 86 |
| 2026 | 58 | 65 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Vehicle-portable grid assessment device6 Oct 2026US 12,753,006 B2Autostore Technology AS
- State estimation using geometric data and vision system for palletizing6 Oct 2026US 12,753,028 B2Dexterity, Inc.
- Apparatus for transporting objects29 Sep 2026US 12,747,115 B2I,M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A.
- Stack containment structure29 Sep 2026US 12,747,824 B2Dexterity, Inc.
- Handling of food products15 Sep 2026US 12,735,280 B2Weber Food Technology GmbH
- Devices and methods for object manipulation24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285618 A1Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Pick-up device, pick-up method and automatic shipping system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285624 A1Beijing Jingdong Qianshi Technology Co., Ltd.
- Method and transfer station for automated loading of a holder with pieces of baggage positioned one next to and one above the other24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285625 A1Vanderlande Industries B. V.
- Doffing Apparatus And Automatically Guided Vehicle Comprising The Same24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285640 A1Columbia Insurance Company
- System for the storage and retrieval of parcels17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274574 A1United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Detection and reconstruction of an environment to facilitate robotic interaction with the environment318US 9,102,055 B1Industrial Perception, Inc. · 2015
- Automated palletizing system184US 5,501,571 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1996
- Automatic freight stacking system181US 4,692,876 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1987
- Methods and systems for recognizing machine-readable information on three-dimensional objects173US 9,227,323 B1Google Inc. · 2016
- Robotic containerization and palletizing system149US 6,579,053 B1ABB Flexible Automation, Inc. · 2003