G05D 1/656
Interaction with payloads or external entities
G05D1/656 (Interaction with payloads or external entities) appears on 1,768 US grants and 2,894 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G05D- Granted patents
- 1,768
- Published applications
- 2,894
- Assignees
- 962
- Inventors
- 5,164
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 6 |
| 2007 | 1 | 4 |
| 2008 | 0 | 3 |
| 2009 | 3 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 3 | 1 |
| 2012 | 3 | 7 |
| 2013 | 10 | 7 |
| 2014 | 10 | 11 |
| 2015 | 12 | 17 |
| 2016 | 15 | 22 |
| 2017 | 25 | 83 |
| 2018 | 36 | 128 |
| 2019 | 67 | 155 |
| 2020 | 111 | 142 |
| 2021 | 126 | 239 |
| 2022 | 125 | 301 |
| 2023 | 179 | 305 |
| 2024 | 391 | 464 |
| 2025 | 408 | 492 |
| 2026 | 239 | 497 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G05D 1/689Pointing payloads towards fixed or moving targets842
- G05D 1/661Docking at a base station451
- G05D 1/667Delivering or retrieving payloads263
- G05D 1/686Maintaining a relative position with respect to moving targets173
- G05D 1/683Intercepting moving targets56
- G05D 1/672Positioning of towed, pushed or suspended implements42
- G05D 1/678For tethered vehicles41
- G05D 1/665Releasing payloads21
Recent patents
- Validating the pose of a robotic vehicle that allows it to interact with an object on fixed infrastructure6 Oct 2026US 12,753,054 B2Seegrid Corporation
- Methods, and unmanned aerial systems for obtaining meteorological data6 Oct 2026US 12,754,345 B2Alveo AB
- Autonomous vehicle for airports6 Oct 2026US 12,754,549 B2Pattern Labs
- System and associated methodology for adaptive aerial survey6 Oct 2026US 12,754,565 B2Nearmap Australia Pty Ltd.
- System and method for transporting cargo and containers across a body of water6 Oct 2026US 12,754,568 B2
- Apparatus, system, and method of docking for autonomous robot navigation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307238 A1Jabil Inc.
- Automatic docking device, automatic docking system, automatic docking method, and non-transitory computer readable medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307774 A1Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Spotlight Attachment For UAVS And Related Methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307828 A1
- Intelligent assistive blind guidance system and method based on audio-visual fusion and haptic feedback8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309497 A1Shandong University
- Offboard monitoring system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309576 A1Joy Global Underground Mining LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Celestial navigation system for an autonomous robot378US 7,706,917 B1iRobot Corporation · 2010
- Autonomous order fulfillment and inventory control robots336US 9,120,622 B1inVia Robotics, Inc. · 2015
- Motion and image-based control system274US 11,126,206 B2Snap Inc. · 2021
- Multi-part navigation process by an unmanned aerial vehicle for navigating to a medical situatiion181US 8,930,044 B1Google Inc. · 2015
- Compact autonomous coverage robot163US 8,239,992 B2iRobot Corporation · 2012