G05D 1/661
Docking at a base station
Official title: Docking at a base station (delivering or retrieving payloads G05D1/667)
G05D1/661 (Docking at a base station) appears on 451 US grants and 685 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G05D- Granted patents
- 451
- Published applications
- 685
- Assignees
- 274
- Inventors
- 1,196
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2008 | 0 | 3 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 6 |
| 2013 | 8 | 4 |
| 2014 | 9 | 3 |
| 2015 | 1 | 8 |
| 2016 | 4 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 6 |
| 2018 | 8 | 24 |
| 2019 | 11 | 44 |
| 2020 | 17 | 33 |
| 2021 | 29 | 75 |
| 2022 | 36 | 80 |
| 2023 | 47 | 87 |
| 2024 | 119 | 113 |
| 2025 | 111 | 92 |
| 2026 | 44 | 99 |
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Mobile robot, docking station, and robot system including same15 Sep 2026US 12,736,986 B2LG Electronics Inc.
- Methods of performing a dispatched store-to-consumer logistics operation for an ordered item and using a modular autonomous bot apparatus assembly and a dispatch server15 Sep 2026US 12,738,116 B2Federal Express Corporation
- Robust docking of robots with imperfect sensing8 Sep 2026US 12,728,747 B2Boston Dynamics, Inc.
- Cleaning robot, and methods and apparatuses for controlling cleaning robot to return to base and move out of base8 Sep 2026US 12,730,459 B2Beijing Roborock Innovation Technology Co., Ltd.
- Control device for industrial vehicle, control system for industrial vehicle, and program for control device for industrial vehicle18 Aug 2026US 12,709,526 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
- 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
- Stationary service appliance for a poly functional roaming device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310224 A1AI Incorporated
- Multi-drone systems and methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310226 A1UAVPatent Corp.
- Autonomous mobile robot8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310229 A1Eureka System S.r.l
Most cited
By later US patents
- Celestial navigation system for an autonomous robot378US 7,706,917 B1iRobot Corporation · 2010
- Compact autonomous coverage robot163US 8,239,992 B2iRobot Corporation · 2012
- Autonomous coverage robot sensing120US 8,438,695 B2iRobot Corporation · 2013
- Autonomous coverage robot110US 8,726,454 B2iRobot Corporation · 2014
- Celestial navigation system for an autonomous robot103US 8,594,840 B1iRobot Corporation · 2013