G01C 19/34
For indicating a direction in the horizontal plane
Official title: for indicating a direction in the horizontal plane, e.g. directional gyroscopes
G01C19/34 (For indicating a direction in the horizontal plane) appears on 184 US grants and 107 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01C- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Survey tool system for blast hole drilling rigs4 Aug 2026US 12,698,704 B2Devico AS
- Mitigating systematic error in gyrocompassing19 May 2026US 12,631,474 B2Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Positioning and orientation method, apparatus, and device17 Mar 2026US 12,578,194 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Gyrocompass2 Dec 2025US 12,487,087 B2Tokyo Keiki Co., Ltd.
- Pre-loaded bearings for sensor shell18 Nov 2025US 12,473,821 B2Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Navigation device for an optical system for aiming and observing a scene, and method for determining an attitude for such an optical system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309461 A1Safran Electronics & Defense
- Electronic device and method for acquiring calibration information to be applied to sensor data of geomagnetic sensor6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227204 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Azimuth measurement device7 May 2026US 2026/0126289 A1Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Artificial intelligence aiding for gyrocompassing2 Apr 2026US 2026/0092782 A1Honeywell International Inc.
- Improved system, method and computer program product for north-finding18 Dec 2025US 2025/0383202 A1Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for the automatic determination of a vehicle position143US 4,321,678 ABodenseewerk Geratetechnik GmbH · 1982
- Aiming and pointing system for ground based weapons equipment117US 5,481,957 AAlliedSignal Inc. · 1996
- Single gyro northfinder113US 5,369,889 AHoneywell Inc. · 1994
- Directional gyro111US 4,558,604 ATeldix GmbH · 1985
- Method and apparatus for injection-molding a thermoplastic device87US 5,656,226 AAircast, Inc. · 1997