B60R 21/01516
Using force or pressure sensing means
Official title: {using force or pressure sensing means}
B60R21/01516 (Using force or pressure sensing means) appears on 1,008 US grants and 957 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60R- Granted patents
- 1,008
- Published applications
- 957
- Assignees
- 293
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- 1,575
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Occupant protection device for a motor vehicle and seat belt unit15 Sep 2026US 12,734,987 B2Dr. Ing. h,c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
- Systems and method for estimating and monitoring occupant injury level in real time in vehicle crashes30 Dec 2025US 12,509,014 B2Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
- Occupant protection method and system, and computer readable medium23 Dec 2025US 12,503,072 B2Zf Asia Pacific Automotive Safety Systems (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
- Alert system for safety seat and safety seat25 Nov 2025US 12,479,339 B2Wonderland Switzerland AG
- Airbag and restraint system control using seat pressure data25 Nov 2025US 12,479,384 B2GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Method for Detecting Presence of Person in Seat6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225625 A1Autonomous Solutions, Inc.
- System and method for removing dust from a vehicle touchscreen30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216759 A1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Seat17 Jul 2025US 2025/0229688 A1Ts Tech Co., Ltd.
- Airbag and restraint system control using seat pressure data15 May 2025US 2025/0153671 A1GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Occupant protection device for a motor vehicle and seat belt unit8 May 2025US 2025/0145101 A1Dr. Ing. h,c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vehicle blind spot detection display system978US 5,786,772 ADonnelly Corporation · 1998
- Vehicle blind spot detection display system759US 5,929,786 ADonnelly Corporation · 1999
- Vehicle rearview mirror display system714US 6,198,409 B1Donnelly Corporation · 2001
- Optical identification and monitoring system using pattern recognition for use with vehicles656US 5,845,000 AAutomotive Technologies International, Inc. · 1998
- Vehicle occupant position and velocity sensor563US 5,848,802 AAutomotive Technologies International, Inc. · 1998