G05D 1/0225
Involving docking at a fixed facility
Official title: {involving docking at a fixed facility, e.g. base station or loading bay (parking aids B62D15/027)}
G05D1/0225 (Involving docking at a fixed facility) appears on 1,276 US grants and 1,455 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G05D- Granted patents
- 1,276
- Published applications
- 1,455
- Assignees
- 501
- Inventors
- 2,639
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 133 | 121 |
| 2024 | 125 | 72 |
| 2025 | 104 | 37 |
| 2026 | 44 | 12 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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