B60Q 9/007
Providing information about the distance to an obstacle
Official title: {providing information about the distance to an obstacle, e.g. varying sound}
B60Q9/007 (Providing information about the distance to an obstacle) appears on 125 US grants and 108 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60Q- Granted patents
- 125
- Published applications
- 108
- Assignees
- 73
- Inventors
- 277
- Latest grant
- 9 Jun 2026
Filings by year
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| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 6 | 6 |
| 2003 | 4 | 6 |
| 2004 | 4 | 6 |
| 2005 | 6 | 9 |
| 2006 | 6 | 6 |
| 2007 | 2 | 2 |
| 2008 | 3 | 1 |
| 2009 | 3 | 7 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 3 | 0 |
| 2012 | 4 | 9 |
| 2013 | 1 | 3 |
| 2014 | 5 | 5 |
| 2015 | 4 | 5 |
| 2016 | 5 | 6 |
| 2017 | 9 | 7 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4 |
| 2019 | 9 | 3 |
| 2020 | 4 | 7 |
| 2021 | 5 | 4 |
| 2022 | 3 | 2 |
| 2023 | 3 | 3 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Vehicle side-view mirror system9 Jun 2026US 12,649,420 B2Hyundai Motor Company
- Coordinated vehicle collision avoidance system11 Feb 2025US 12,223,835 B1GM Cruise Holdings LLC
- Automatic control apparatus and method of in-vehicle infotainment volume29 Oct 2024US 12,128,824 B2Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
- Motor vehicle and method for operating an illumination device of a motor vehicle24 Sep 2024US 12,097,797 B2Audi AG
- Method for operating a parking assistance function of a motor vehicle12 Mar 2024US 11,926,260 B2Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Rear-view device for a vehicle19 Mar 2026US 2026/0077715 A1Volvo Car Corporation
- Vehicle side-view mirror system20 Nov 2025US 2025/0353434 A1Hyundai Motor Company
- Parking assistance system28 Aug 2025US 2025/0269792 A1
- Display control apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium14 Aug 2025US 2025/0259262 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Method for supporting a parking process of a motor vehicle24 Apr 2025US 2025/0128700 A1Audi AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vehicular position monitoring system with integral mirror video display712US 5,793,308 ASensorvision Technologies, L.L.C. · 1998
- Rear viewing system for vehicles448US 4,214,266 A1980
- Vehicular proximity sensing system404US 5,173,881 A1992
- System and method of avoiding collisions317US 6,268,803 B1Altra Technologies Incorporated · 2001
- Computer vision based parking assistant295US 6,683,539 B2Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. · 2004