B62D 31/003
Compact cars
Official title: {compact cars, e.g. city cars}
B62D31/003 (Compact cars) appears on 199 US grants and 179 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B62D- Granted patents
- 199
- Published applications
- 179
- Assignees
- 97
- Inventors
- 429
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 2 | 6 |
| 2003 | 3 | 1 |
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| 2005 | 5 | 5 |
| 2006 | 2 | 8 |
| 2007 | 9 | 12 |
| 2008 | 2 | 7 |
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| 2010 | 5 | 8 |
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| 2015 | 17 | 11 |
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| 2019 | 4 | 3 |
| 2020 | 4 | 15 |
| 2021 | 7 | 9 |
| 2022 | 12 | 12 |
| 2023 | 8 | 7 |
| 2024 | 10 | 5 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 |
| 2026 | 4 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Vehicle8 Sep 2026US 12,728,708 B2
- Vehicle9 Jun 2026US 12,649,526 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Vehicle body frame31 Mar 2026US 12,589,639 B2Hyundai Motor Company
- Energy absorbing structure for a battery10 Feb 2026US 12,545,327 B2Zoox, Inc.
- Energy absorbing structure for a battery8 Jul 2025US 12,351,239 B1Zoox, Inc.
- Modular vehicle23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208805 A1Textron Inc.
- Monolithic chassis and a method of making the same16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200532 A1
- Vehicle for ridesharing and package delivery services and methods for using same30 Apr 2026US 2026/0116265 A1Indigo Technologies, Inc.
- Vehicle5 Mar 2026US 2026/0062066 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Foldable vehicle21 Aug 2025US 2025/0263131 A1City Transformer Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Configuration and construction of four wheeled motor vehicles122US 4,217,970 A1980
- Lightweight two-wheeled vehicle103US 4,293,052 A1981
- Battery-powered vehicle81US 5,960,901 ACorbin Pacific, Inc. · 1999
- Weathershield for golf carts68US 4,098,536 A1978
- Three-wheel motor vehicle67US 6,276,480 B1Citymobil AG · 2001