B66F 9/142
Movements of forks either individually or relative to each other
Official title: {Movements of forks either individually or relative to each other}
B66F9/142 (Movements of forks either individually or relative to each other) appears on 136 US grants and 127 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66F- Granted patents
- 136
- Published applications
- 127
- Assignees
- 83
- Inventors
- 276
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 6 | 6 |
| 2025 | 10 | 9 |
| 2026 | 7 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Adjustable fork for heavy loads11 Aug 2026US 12,703,617 B2Manitou Italia S.R.L.
- Attachments for industrial material handling equipment2 Jun 2026US 12,643,778 B2Cascade Corporation
- Side-shift fork carriage for a material handling machine5 May 2026US 12,617,660 B2J. C. Bamford Excavators Limited
- Synchronized hybrid clamp force controller for lift truck attachment17 Mar 2026US 12,577,091 B2Cascade Corporation
- Aligning method, controller, and material handling equipment10 Feb 2026US 12,545,563 B1VisionNav Robotics USA Inc.
- Material handling equipment and control method therefor, and controller30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217507 A1VisionNav Robotics USA Inc.
- Transfer system29 Jan 2026US 2026/0028212 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Load handling device29 Jan 2026US 2026/0028213 A1
- Autonomous transport vehicle25 Dec 2025US 2025/0388440 A1Symbotic LLC
- Fork assembly and warehousing robot16 Oct 2025US 2025/0320095 A1Hai Robotics Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Teleoperated robotic system62US 9,789,603 B2Sarcos LC · 2017
- Apparatus and method for controllably positioning forks of a material handling vehicle36US 5,052,882 ACaterpillar Industrial Inc. · 1991
- Powered pallet truck36US 8,540,213 B2Big Lift, LLC · 2013
- Automatic transport loading system and method32US 8,075,243 B2Jervis B. Webb Company · 2011
- Fork unit having adjustable forks31US 4,381,166 A1983