E02F 5/145
Control and indicating devices
Official title: {control and indicating devices}
E02F5/145 (Control and indicating devices) appears on 169 US grants and 138 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E02F- Granted patents
- 169
- Published applications
- 138
- Assignees
- 86
- Inventors
- 302
- Latest grant
- 14 Apr 2026
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| 2023 | 6 | 11 |
| 2024 | 13 | 2 |
| 2025 | 8 | 5 |
| 2026 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- System and method for underwater payload estimation in dragline bucket30 Apr 2026US 2026/0117486 A1Caterpillar Global Mining LLC
- Autonomous backfilling apparatus9 Oct 2025US 2025/0314038 A1The Charles Machine Works, Inc.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Excavator data acquisition and control system and process123US 5,704,142 AVermeer Manufacturing Company · 1998
- Excavator data acquisition and control system and method of use109US 5,553,407 AVermeer Manufacturing Company · 1996
- Excavator data acquisition and control system and process103US 5,659,985 AVermeer Manufacturing Company · 1997
- Excavator data acquisition and control system and process80US 6,195,922 B1Vermeer Manufacturing Company · 2001
- Excavator data acquisition and control system and process73US 6,119,376 AVermeer Manufacturing Company · 2000