G05D 1/69 Coordinated control of the position or course of two or more vehicles
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 > Coordinated control of the position or course of two or more vehicles
Filing statistics
CPC G05D 1/69 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
5 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- G05D 1/692 involving a plurality of disparate vehicles
- G05D 1/693 for avoiding collisions between vehicles
- G05D 1/695 for maintaining a fixed relative position of the vehicles, e.g. for convoy travelling or formation flight
- G05D 1/697 for rendezvous of two or more vehicles, e.g. for in-flight refuelling (docking at a base station G05D1/661)
- G05D 1/698 Control allocation
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