G05D 1/646
Following a predefined trajectory
Official title: Following a predefined trajectory, e.g. a line marked on the floor or a flight path
G05D1/646 (Following a predefined trajectory) appears on 1,040 US grants and 1,415 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G05D- Granted patents
- 1,040
- Published applications
- 1,415
- Assignees
- 471
- Inventors
- 2,539
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 4 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 5 | 9 |
| 2015 | 4 | 5 |
| 2016 | 7 | 10 |
| 2017 | 13 | 14 |
| 2018 | 11 | 60 |
| 2019 | 42 | 64 |
| 2020 | 59 | 105 |
| 2021 | 70 | 154 |
| 2022 | 72 | 171 |
| 2023 | 104 | 184 |
| 2024 | 319 | 272 |
| 2025 | 209 | 210 |
| 2026 | 118 | 148 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Behavior planning for autonomous vehicles6 Oct 2026US 12,752,816 B2NVIDIA Corporation
- Identifying objects for display in a situational-awareness view of an autonomous-vehicle environment6 Oct 2026US 12,754,036 B2Lyft, Inc.
- Methods, and unmanned aerial systems for obtaining meteorological data6 Oct 2026US 12,754,345 B2Alveo AB
- Systems and methods for dynamically offloading robotic computation to the cloud6 Oct 2026US 12,754,557 B2Robert Bosch GmbH
- Self navigation method for a drone or the like29 Sep 2026US 12,748,438 B1Jimei Univisity
- User-prompted cleaning by autonomous vacuum8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305895 A1Matic Robots, Inc. (fka Matician, Inc.)
- Post-avoidance maneuver control system and method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310220 A1The Boeing Company
- Work support system, autonomous movable body for work support, and work support method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299581 A1Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Mapping system for material delivery system including autonomous mobile robot for generating and updating a facility map for distribution to load-bearing autonomous mobile robots1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299589 A1GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Apparatus and process for unmanned tasking1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299603 A1The Penn State Research Foundation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Engaging and disengaging for autonomous driving319US 8,818,608 B2Google Inc. · 2014
- Autonomous vehicle routing during emergencies299US 10,156,848 B1State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · 2018
- Autonomous vehicle refueling275US 10,042,359 B1State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · 2018
- Trajectory path planner for a vision guidance system248US 6,385,515 B1Case Corporation · 2002
- Autonomous vehicle damage and salvage assessment209US 10,086,782 B1State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · 2018