G05D 3/00
Control of position or direction
Official title: Control of position or direction (G05D1/00 takes precedence; numerical control to execute positioning G05B19/18)
G05D3/00 (Control of position or direction) appears on 1,250 US grants and 960 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G05D- Granted patents
- 1,250
- Published applications
- 960
- Assignees
- 724
- Inventors
- 2,577
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 26 | 0 |
| 1977 | 39 | 0 |
| 1978 | 36 | 0 |
| 1979 | 21 | 0 |
| 1980 | 25 | 0 |
| 1981 | 26 | 0 |
| 1982 | 25 | 0 |
| 1983 | 16 | 0 |
| 1984 | 28 | 0 |
| 1985 | 28 | 0 |
| 1986 | 24 | 0 |
| 1987 | 13 | 0 |
| 1988 | 14 | 0 |
| 1989 | 21 | 0 |
| 1990 | 20 | 0 |
| 1991 | 7 | 0 |
| 1992 | 20 | 0 |
| 1993 | 16 | 0 |
| 1994 | 8 | 0 |
| 1995 | 17 | 0 |
| 1996 | 7 | 0 |
| 1997 | 7 | 0 |
| 1998 | 8 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 0 |
| 2002 | 4 | 2 |
| 2003 | 6 | 3 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4 |
| 2005 | 4 | 4 |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 3 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 6 |
| 2010 | 1 | 15 |
| 2011 | 4 | 13 |
| 2012 | 10 | 13 |
| 2013 | 18 | 39 |
| 2014 | 20 | 38 |
| 2015 | 41 | 50 |
| 2016 | 34 | 73 |
| 2017 | 62 | 41 |
| 2018 | 57 | 79 |
| 2019 | 83 | 90 |
| 2020 | 64 | 87 |
| 2021 | 74 | 93 |
| 2022 | 69 | 75 |
| 2023 | 64 | 55 |
| 2024 | 61 | 64 |
| 2025 | 64 | 63 |
| 2026 | 38 | 48 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System and method for wireless-enabled object location, tracking, and direction provision6 Oct 2026US 12,753,905 B2Fedex Dataworks, Inc.
- Aircraft control systems and methods using sliding mode control and feedback linearization6 Oct 2026US 12,754,554 B2Bombardier Inc.
- Work space forming equipment, work method, and management space facility22 Sep 2026US 12,742,558 B2Jgc Japan Corporation
- Precision stylus control system22 Sep 2026US 12,742,626 B2
- Systems for damping a solar photovoltaic array tracker22 Sep 2026US 12,744,492 B2FTC Solar, Inc.
- System and method of rotor management8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307786 A1Beta Air, LLC
- System and Method for Protecting Solar Panels from Inclement Weather8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310239 A1
- Flat folding multi-axis positioning systems and methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310240 A1
- Delivery robot8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310241 A1Bear Robotics Korea, Inc.
- Order reception system, device, and order reception method17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277254 A1Glory Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System, method, and apparatus for settlement for participation in an electric power grid244US 8,583,520 B1Causam Holdings, LLC · 2013
- System and method for remote control of unmanned vehicles132US 9,720,419 B2Humanistic Robotics, Inc. · 2017
- System and method for generating a path for a mobile drive unit122US 8,538,692 B2Amazon Technologies, Inc. · 2013
- Servosystem between a master actuator and a slave actuator113US 4,510,574 ACommissariat A L' Energie Atomique · 1985
- Prismatic solar reflector apparatus and method of solar tracking108US 4,154,219 AE-Systems, Inc. · 1979