G05B 15/00
Systems controlled by a computer
Official title: Systems controlled by a computer (G05B13/00, G05B19/00 take precedence; automatic controllers with particular characteristics G05B11/00)
G05B15/00 (Systems controlled by a computer) appears on 11,804 US grants and 15,036 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G05B- Granted patents
- 11,804
- Published applications
- 15,036
- Assignees
- 4,010
- Inventors
- 23,251
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 7 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
| 1984 | 7 | 0 |
| 1985 | 6 | 0 |
| 1986 | 3 | 0 |
| 1987 | 13 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 6 | 0 |
| 1990 | 10 | 0 |
| 1991 | 6 | 0 |
| 1992 | 6 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 5 | 0 |
| 1995 | 9 | 0 |
| 1996 | 12 | 0 |
| 1997 | 6 | 0 |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 |
| 1999 | 9 | 0 |
| 2000 | 17 | 0 |
| 2001 | 12 | 18 |
| 2002 | 29 | 59 |
| 2003 | 47 | 76 |
| 2004 | 45 | 96 |
| 2005 | 63 | 101 |
| 2006 | 80 | 107 |
| 2007 | 64 | 109 |
| 2008 | 52 | 177 |
| 2009 | 53 | 131 |
| 2010 | 81 | 205 |
| 2011 | 114 | 222 |
| 2012 | 146 | 359 |
| 2013 | 220 | 591 |
| 2014 | 298 | 871 |
| 2015 | 491 | 1605 |
| 2016 | 619 | 1536 |
| 2017 | 1000 | 1226 |
| 2018 | 1297 | 1228 |
| 2019 | 1460 | 1188 |
| 2020 | 1262 | 1069 |
| 2021 | 956 | 1008 |
| 2022 | 819 | 856 |
| 2023 | 852 | 801 |
| 2024 | 774 | 598 |
| 2025 | 560 | 487 |
| 2026 | 256 | 312 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Wireless sprinkler valve system6 Oct 2026US 12,751,384 B1Rain Bird Corporation
- Systems and methods for generating customized control boundaries6 Oct 2026US 12,751,767 B2MAKO Surgical Corp.
- System and method for formation mechanical analysis6 Oct 2026US 12,754,522 B2Motive Drilling Technologies, Inc.
- Systems and methods for utilizing electricity monitoring devices to mitigate or prevent structural damage6 Oct 2026US 12,756,173 B2State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
- Systems and methods for creating load peaks and valleys29 Sep 2026US 12,748,449 B2Peak Power, Inc.
- Information system and operation device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308887 A1Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
- Partitioning and redundancy control in process control systems8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310150 A1Honeywell International Inc.
- Control system, computer-readable recording medium, and control method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310151 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
- Systems and methods for utilizing electricity monitoring devices to mitigate or prevent structural damage8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312395 A1State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
- Methods, controllers, and machine-readable storage media for automated commissioning of equipment8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313820 A1PassiveLogic, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for synchronizing operations among a plurality of independently clocked digital data processing devices1,949US 8,234,395 B2Sonos, Inc. · 2012
- Controlling and manipulating groupings in a multi-zone media system1,881US 8,483,853 B1Sonos, Inc. · 2013
- Surgical instrument with rapid post event detection1,541US 9,265,585 B2Covidien LP · 2016
- Smart sensors with local signal processing1,487US 9,993,248 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2018
- Devices and techniques for cutting and coagulating tissue1,407US 9,089,360 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2015