E02F 3/434
Providing automatic sequences of movements
Official title: {providing automatic sequences of movements, e.g. automatic dumping or loading, automatic return-to-dig}
E02F3/434 (Providing automatic sequences of movements) appears on 197 US grants and 247 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E02F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 247
- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 16 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- System, controller for work machine, and method of determining disposition of materials20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243049 A1Komatsu Ltd.
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- Wheel Loader6 Aug 2026US 2026/0226699 A1Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Autonomous loading shovel system91US 7,574,821 B2Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. · 2009
- Semi-automatic material loading82US 9,523,180 B2Deere & Company · 2016
- Control system for automatically controlling a work implement of an earthworking machine to capture material74US 5,528,843 ACaterpillar Inc. · 1996
- Method and apparatus for determining an excavation strategy for a front-end loader69US 6,167,336 ACarnegie Mellon University · 2000
- Method for an autonomous loading shovel65US 7,578,079 B2Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. · 2009