G05D 1/656 Interaction with payloads or external entities
Full Title
Control of position, course, altitude or attitude of land, water, air or space vehicles, e.g. using automatic pilots (drive control systems specially adapted for autonomous road vehicles B60W60/00) > Intended control result > Interaction with payloads or external entities
Filing statistics
CPC G05D 1/656 belongs to the parent subclass G05D, which recorded 227,290 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 7,629 in 2013 to 16,612 in 2023 (+118%), peaking at 30,148 applications in 2019. The most active applicants in class G05 are FANUC (6,367 applications), SIEMENS (5,963 applications) and FANUC (4,535 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
8 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- G05D 1/661 Docking at a base station (delivering or retrieving payloads G05D1/667)
- G05D 1/667 Delivering or retrieving payloads
- G05D 1/672 Positioning of towed, pushed or suspended implements, e.g. ploughs
- G05D 1/678 for tethered vehicles (positioning towed, pushed or suspended implements G05D1/672)
- G05D 1/683 Intercepting moving targets (docking at a base station G05D1/661)
- G05D 1/686 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)
- G05D 1/689 Pointing payloads towards fixed or moving targets (positioning towed, pushed or suspended implements G05D1/672)
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G05, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- FANUC JP 6,367
- SIEMENS DE 5,963
- FANUC 4,535
- MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION JP 4,201
- ROBERT BOSCH DE 4,010
- LG ELECTRONICS KR 3,802
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 3,143
- FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES US 2,889
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 2,778
- OMRON CORPORATION JP 2,743