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G05D 1/656

Interaction with payloads or external entities

Introduced: January 2024

Full Title

Control of position, course, altitude or attitude of land, water, air or space vehicles, e.g. using automatic pilots > Intended control result > Interaction with payloads or external entities

Classification Context

Section:
PHYSICS
Class:
CONTROLLING; REGULATING
Subclass:
SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES

Filing statistics

IPC G05D 1/656 belongs to the parent subclass G05D, which recorded 251,217 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 11,275 in 2013 to 22,402 in 2023 (+99%), peaking at 30,053 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class G05 are SIEMENS (4,725 applications), SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) (4,571 applications) and FANUC (4,233 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

7 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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  • G05D 1/661 Docking at a base station
  • 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
  • G05D 1/683 Intercepting moving targets
  • G05D 1/686 Maintaining a relative position with respect to moving targets, e.g. following animals or humans
  • G05D 1/689 Pointing payloads towards fixed or moving targets

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G05, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SIEMENS DE 4,725
  2. SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 4,571
  3. FANUC JP 4,233
  4. MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION JP 3,143
  5. FANUC 2,981
  6. ROBERT BOSCH DE 2,813
  7. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2,500
  8. LG ELECTRONICS KR 2,182
  9. OMRON CORPORATION JP 2,036
  10. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 1,981