G01C 21/206
Specially adapted for indoor navigation
Official title: {specially adapted for indoor navigation}
G01C21/206 (Specially adapted for indoor navigation) appears on 2,525 US grants and 3,271 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01C- Granted patents
- 2,525
- Published applications
- 3,271
- Assignees
- 999
- Inventors
- 5,878
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 1 |
| 2002 | 5 | 9 |
| 2003 | 5 | 17 |
| 2004 | 10 | 17 |
| 2005 | 12 | 12 |
| 2006 | 13 | 22 |
| 2007 | 12 | 29 |
| 2008 | 11 | 24 |
| 2009 | 16 | 24 |
| 2010 | 20 | 41 |
| 2011 | 21 | 38 |
| 2012 | 34 | 72 |
| 2013 | 62 | 146 |
| 2014 | 88 | 185 |
| 2015 | 128 | 184 |
| 2016 | 133 | 201 |
| 2017 | 179 | 227 |
| 2018 | 194 | 282 |
| 2019 | 256 | 241 |
| 2020 | 248 | 322 |
| 2021 | 214 | 298 |
| 2022 | 220 | 210 |
| 2023 | 204 | 184 |
| 2024 | 165 | 217 |
| 2025 | 165 | 151 |
| 2026 | 96 | 117 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Location and navigation assistant29 Sep 2026US 12,747,950 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program29 Sep 2026US 12,748,212 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Datacenter navigation29 Sep 2026US 12,750,936 B2Dropbox, Inc.
- Method and system for creating virtual meta map using spatial data acquired by intelligent indoor autonomous mobile robot8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310205 A1Integrit Inc.
- System and method for adaptive navigation in a facility1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298647 A1
- Systems and methods for navigating and monitoring infrastructure using acoustic signals24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287364 A1Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- System24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287365 A1SoftBank Group Corp.
- Mapping in autonomous and non-autonomous platforms24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287366 A1Trifo, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Location of a mobile station using a plurality of commercial wireless infrastructures1,007US 6,236,365 B1TracBeam LLC · 2001
- Locating a mobile station using a plurality of wireless networks and applications therefor472US 6,952,181 B2TracBeam LLC · 2005
- Method and apparatus for tracking and locating personnel441US 5,977,913 ADominion Wireless · 1999
- Computerized information presentation apparatus421US 8,290,778 B22012
- Computerized information presentation apparatus419US 8,285,553 B22012