G01C 21/26
Navigation: specially adapted for navigation in a road network
Official title: specially adapted for navigation in a road network
G01C21/26 (Navigation: specially adapted for navigation in a road network) appears on 23,577 US grants and 30,284 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01C- Granted patents
- 23,577
- Published applications
- 30,284
- Assignees
- 3,933
- Inventors
- 40,986
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 8 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 11 | 0 |
| 1984 | 4 | 0 |
| 1985 | 18 | 0 |
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| 1987 | 21 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 35 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 54 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 53 | 0 |
| 1998 | 118 | 0 |
| 1999 | 152 | 0 |
| 2000 | 190 | 0 |
| 2001 | 220 | 134 |
| 2002 | 279 | 292 |
| 2003 | 257 | 313 |
| 2004 | 255 | 399 |
| 2005 | 235 | 415 |
| 2006 | 226 | 497 |
| 2007 | 203 | 519 |
| 2008 | 209 | 701 |
| 2009 | 303 | 777 |
| 2010 | 362 | 819 |
| 2011 | 404 | 893 |
| 2012 | 579 | 793 |
| 2013 | 757 | 1039 |
| 2014 | 931 | 1147 |
| 2015 | 1118 | 1345 |
| 2016 | 1141 | 1468 |
| 2017 | 1332 | 1626 |
| 2018 | 1321 | 1843 |
| 2019 | 1545 | 2185 |
| 2020 | 1627 | 2643 |
| 2021 | 1713 | 2420 |
| 2022 | 1730 | 2085 |
| 2023 | 1773 | 1861 |
| 2024 | 1723 | 1766 |
| 2025 | 1454 | 1387 |
| 2026 | 937 | 917 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Smart vehicle systems and control logic with automated lane merging assistance6 Oct 2026US 12,752,704 B2GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- System and method for real time verification of motion estimation via map plausible localization6 Oct 2026US 12,752,795 B2TORC Robotics, Inc.
- Electronic apparatus for controlling function of vehicle, and method thereby6 Oct 2026US 12,752,797 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Wearable personal inside-out location tracking6 Oct 2026US 12,754,022 B2Qwake Technologies, Inc.
- Server device, system, and operation method of system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,023 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Route information creation apparatus and method of creating route information8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309504 A1Mitsubishi Electric Mobility Corporation
- Distributed vehicle route planning8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309505 A1Zoox, Inc.
- Route creation device, vehicle, and method for route generation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309506 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Machine learning based energy use prediction8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309507 A1Exergi Predictive LLC
- Providing a route with augmented reality8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309508 A1Lodestar Licensing Group LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Travel reservation information and planning system2,363US 5,948,040 ADeLorme Publishing Co. · 1999
- Integrated routing/mapping information1,518US 6,321,158 B1DeLorme Publishing Co. · 2001
- Method and system for displaying navigation information on an electronic map1,244US 8,032,297 B22011
- Method and system for displaying social networking navigation information1,240US 8,014,943 B22011
- Displaying content associated with electronic mapping systems1,231US 8,490,025 B22013