G05D 1/686
Maintaining a relative position with respect to moving targets
Official title: Maintaining a relative position with respect to moving targets, e.g. following animals or humans (for pointing payloads towards targets G05D1/689; involving controlling the position or course of two or more vehicles G05D1/69)
G05D1/686 (Maintaining a relative position with respect to moving targets) appears on 173 US grants and 285 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G05D- Granted patents
- 173
- Published applications
- 285
- Assignees
- 134
- Inventors
- 536
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 2013 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 | 1 | 6 |
| 2018 | 1 | 9 |
| 2019 | 12 | 33 |
| 2020 | 18 | 14 |
| 2021 | 13 | 21 |
| 2022 | 12 | 34 |
| 2023 | 25 | 25 |
| 2024 | 39 | 36 |
| 2025 | 30 | 41 |
| 2026 | 20 | 59 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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- Modular image capture systems18US 10,827,123 B1GoPro, Inc. · 2020