G05D 1/0094
Involving pointing a payload
Official title: {involving pointing a payload, e.g. camera, weapon, sensor, towards a fixed or moving target}
G05D1/0094 (Involving pointing a payload) appears on 2,144 US grants and 2,688 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G05D- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2005 | 2 | 2 |
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| 2021 | 260 | 390 |
| 2022 | 286 | 307 |
| 2023 | 280 | 231 |
| 2024 | 235 | 137 |
| 2025 | 200 | 77 |
| 2026 | 69 | 40 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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