E02F 3/841
Devices for controlling and guiding the whole machine
Official title: {Devices for controlling and guiding the whole machine, e.g. by feeler elements and reference lines placed exteriorly of the machine (construction of roads E01C19/008)}
E02F3/841 (Devices for controlling and guiding the whole machine) appears on 311 US grants and 323 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E02F- Granted patents
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| 2026 | 18 | 12 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Adaptive eco mode6 Oct 2026US 12,753,573 B2Deere & Company
- Work machine, and method and system for controlling work machine22 Sep 2026US 12,742,304 B2Komatsu Ltd.
- Dynamic acquisition and utilization of shared jobsite density information15 Sep 2026US 12,735,871 B2Deere & Company
- System and method for controlling work machine1 Sep 2026US 12,723,366 B2Komatsu Ltd.
- Method and system of configuring a machine control unit of a construction machine4 Aug 2026US 12,698,619 B2Leica Geosystems Technology A/S
- Multidirectional grading control for work machines8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308871 A1Deere & Company
- Autonomous Control Of Powered Earth-Moving Vehicles To Implement Vehicle Stoppage And Shutdown24 Sep 2026US 2026/0286647 A1AIM Intelligent Machines, Inc.
- Automatically enabling and disabling an autonomous control scheme for an implement of a machine3 Sep 2026US 2026/0258638 A1Caterpillar Inc.
- Work machine and method for automated configuration support based on selectable machine operations13 Aug 2026US 2026/0234903 A1Deere & Company
- Determination of a dynamic target plane for an implement of a machine based on filtered dynamic track plane parameters6 Aug 2026US 2026/0226702 A1Caterpillar Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for establishing a perimeter defining an area to be traversed by a mobile machine227US 6,112,143 ACaterpillar Inc. · 2000
- Method and apparatus for real-time monitoring and coordination of multiple geography altering machines on a work site223US 5,646,844 ACaterpillar Inc. · 1997
- Position sensing system for surveying and grading189US 4,820,041 AAGTEK Development Company, Inc. · 1989
- Grading system149US 4,807,131 AClegg Engineering, Inc. · 1989
- Vehicle guidance system for avoiding obstacles stored in memory103US 6,539,294 B1Komatsu Ltd. · 2003