Autonomous Tractor Soil Management Patent Snapshot
The autonomous tractor soil management patent space is extremely small and highly concentrated, with a single applicant, AGXEED HLDG BV, accounting for the dominant share of the 9 patent families in scope. Filing activity peaked around 2019 and 2022 and has since plateaued, signaling a field that is technically maturing but still thinly populated overall.
AGXEED HLDG BV leads an extremely concentrated, nascent field
The corpus covers 9 patent families, and AGXEED HLDG BV holds 7 of them — the highest-ranked applicant by a wide margin. The only other named filer is an individual inventor, Vaibhav Laxman Dhasal, with 1 patent family.
The top five filers collectively account for 100% of the ranked applicants visible in this query’ combined total, which in a field this small means two entities effectively define the entire assignee snapshot. There is no meaningful second tier.
| # | Applicant | Patent families | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AGXEED HLDG BV | 7 | |
| 2 | Vaibhav Laxman Dhasal (Director) | 1 |
AGXEED’s near-total ownership of this space implies it has established early prior-art coverage over core autonomous soil-working methods; any new entrant will need to navigate or design around that portfolio before gaining freedom to operate.
Patent publication typically lags filing by 18–24 months, so the most recent activity in this corpus may be under-represented. Longer-window growth, applicant concentration, and technology-route coverage are therefore more reliable signals than the latest-year bar alone.
Sporadic filing bursts with a dominant soil-working technology branch
Filing activity has appeared in discrete clusters rather than a continuous ramp, and the technology mix is heavily skewed toward agricultural soil-working classifications with small adjacent signals in vehicle handling and communications.
Annual filing trend
Activity appeared in two clusters — around 2019 and again in 2022 — each contributing 4 patent families, with a single filing in 2025. The field has plateaued rather than compounding, and the most recent periods should be treated as potentially under-counted due to publication lag.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaTechnology composition
A01B (Soil working in agriculture) is visible in the technology composition. Secondary classifications in B60P (load-handling vehicles), G05D (control of non-electric variables), and H04L (digital information transmission) each appear at low counts, reflecting peripheral but technically relevant areas of autonomous navigation and data communication.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaHighly cited patent families surfaced by the query
Citation-heavy patent families returned by the query. Use this section as citation context, not as a curated list of the most topic-specific patents.
Autonomous tractor and method to cultivate farmlan…
The present invention pertains to an autonomous tractor for autonomously crossing farmland, comprising one or more sensors for detection of obstacles when crossing the farmland, a coupler for coupling an agricultural machine chosen from a group of agricultural machines each of which are able to be coupled to the tractor, and a connector for connecting the… (excerpt from the patent abstract)
| # | Patent | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Autonomous tractor and method to cultivate farmlan… | 13 |
| 2 | A method for cultivating a piece of farmland and a… | 2 |
| 3 | Autonomous tractor and method to cultivate farmlan… | 1 |
Ranked by total forward citations. Citation counts favour older and broadly cited patent families, and broad or adjacent patents may appear when they match the search scope. Treat this section as citation context, not as a curated list of the most topic-specific patents. Some patent titles may be shown in their original, non-English language where an accurate translation could not be guaranteed.
Assignee snapshot from the current evidence set
The applicants below are visible in this query result. Because the evidence set is relatively small, read this section as a directional snapshot rather than a full competitive ranking.
AGXEED HLDG BV
Holds 7 patent families, concentrating on A01B 69 (autonomous soil working, 6 families) and A01B 73 (soil working attachments, 2 families), with B60P 1 (load-handling vehicles, 2 families) as a secondary route. Applicant momentum is flagged as a new entrant with a recent-period count of 4 families, indicating that the bulk of its portfolio was assembled in relatively recent filing windows. Its subsidiary AGXEED BV shares overlapping IPC coverage across the same core codes.
families: 7Vaibhav Laxman Dhasal (Director)
Holds 1 patent family, with technology focus spread across A01B 59 (soil working attachments), A01B 69 (autonomous soil working), and the outlier code A63B 22 (sports and gymnastics equipment). This unusual IPC mix may reflect a multi-purpose mechanical design filed by an individual rather than a corporate R&D program. No momentum trajectory data beyond a single family is available.
families: 1Frequently asked questions
The evidence covers 9 patent families in scope for this topic as of the current dataset.
AGXEED HLDG BV is the visible holder with 7 patent families, making it by far the largest filer. Its subsidiary AGXEED BV shares overlapping IPC coverage. The only other named applicant is an individual inventor holding 1 family.
Europe (EPO) has the highest filing count, followed by Australia and WIPO (PCT), with single filings in Canada and India. North American and Asian markets show minimal direct coverage in this corpus.
A01B (Soil working in agriculture) is the visible IPC class. Secondary classifications include B60P (load-handling vehicles), G05D (control of non-electric variables), and H04L (digital information transmission), each at low counts.
The lifecycle evidence indicates the field has plateaued near its peak, with discrete filing clusters in 2019 and 2022 representing the high-water marks and no sustained compounding growth. The most recent periods may be under-counted due to publication lag.
G05D (control of non-electric variables) and H04L (digital information transmission) each appear with only 1 patent record, making them the most sparsely covered adjacent branches relative to the visible A01B core. These represent areas where the prior-art base is thin but technical relevance to autonomous field operations is clear.
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