B60N 2/266
With detection or alerting means responsive to presence or absence of children
Official title: {with detection or alerting means responsive to presence or absence of children; with detection or alerting means responsive to improper locking or installation of the child seats or parts thereof}
B60N2/266 (With detection or alerting means responsive to presence or absence of children) appears on 496 US grants and 658 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60N- Granted patents
- 496
- Published applications
- 658
- Assignees
- 215
- Inventors
- 1,090
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 10 | 0 |
| 1999 | 9 | 0 |
| 2000 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 5 |
| 2002 | 7 | 7 |
| 2003 | 7 | 15 |
| 2004 | 10 | 15 |
| 2005 | 9 | 23 |
| 2006 | 11 | 20 |
| 2007 | 19 | 23 |
| 2008 | 23 | 45 |
| 2009 | 9 | 27 |
| 2010 | 22 | 12 |
| 2011 | 23 | 20 |
| 2012 | 15 | 14 |
| 2013 | 20 | 29 |
| 2014 | 11 | 17 |
| 2015 | 16 | 11 |
| 2016 | 16 | 35 |
| 2017 | 26 | 44 |
| 2018 | 26 | 35 |
| 2019 | 26 | 39 |
| 2020 | 26 | 26 |
| 2021 | 22 | 37 |
| 2022 | 25 | 41 |
| 2023 | 27 | 37 |
| 2024 | 25 | 29 |
| 2025 | 32 | 30 |
| 2026 | 7 | 22 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Determining and responding to an internal status of a vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,754,550 B2Waymo LLC
- Child safety seat and safety belt mounting prompt system and method25 Aug 2026US 12,715,347 B2Wonderland Switzerland AG
- System and method for securing and monitoring a child placed in a car seat of a vehicle16 Jun 2026US 12,654,596 B2
- Methods and systems for automated machine vision monitoring of vehicle seats9 Jun 2026US 12,651,430 B2State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
- Car seat with obstructing element28 Apr 2026US 12,611,971 B2BabyArk LTD
- Car seat arm lock indicator8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307554 A1Evenflo Company, Inc.
- Method of thermally conditioning a child safety seat installed in a vehicle17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274037 A1Gentherm Incorporated
- Supporting leg assembly, supporting leg telescopic mechanism and carrier17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274123 A1Wonderland Switzerland AG
- Child seat illumination system20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240329 A1Wonderland Switzerland AG
- Seat sensor system for a vehicle13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233637 A1GM Global Technology Operations LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automotive occupant sensing device525US 5,528,698 ARockwell International Corporation · 1996
- Asset system control arrangement and method407US 7,663,502 B2Intelligent Technologies International, Inc. · 2010
- Vehicular restraint system control system and method using multiple optical imagers405US 7,164,117 B2Automotive Technologies International, Inc. · 2007
- Monitoring using cellular phones263US 8,035,508 B2Intelligent Technologies International, Inc. · 2011
- Automobile air bag systems236US 5,602,734 AAdvanced Safety Concepts, Inc. · 1997