G01C 21/30
Map- or contour-matching
G01C21/30 (Map- or contour-matching) appears on 2,246 US grants and 2,861 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01C- Granted patents
- 2,246
- Published applications
- 2,861
- Assignees
- 732
- Inventors
- 5,159
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
| 1988 | 4 | 0 |
| 1989 | 8 | 0 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 9 | 0 |
| 1992 | 6 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
| 1994 | 12 | 0 |
| 1995 | 10 | 0 |
| 1996 | 9 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 8 | 0 |
| 2000 | 9 | 0 |
| 2001 | 11 | 4 |
| 2002 | 11 | 8 |
| 2003 | 12 | 11 |
| 2004 | 7 | 20 |
| 2005 | 16 | 18 |
| 2006 | 5 | 19 |
| 2007 | 8 | 30 |
| 2008 | 12 | 37 |
| 2009 | 13 | 42 |
| 2010 | 25 | 41 |
| 2011 | 21 | 45 |
| 2012 | 36 | 31 |
| 2013 | 46 | 38 |
| 2014 | 46 | 52 |
| 2015 | 73 | 74 |
| 2016 | 70 | 98 |
| 2017 | 104 | 123 |
| 2018 | 84 | 157 |
| 2019 | 111 | 200 |
| 2020 | 149 | 331 |
| 2021 | 195 | 361 |
| 2022 | 256 | 299 |
| 2023 | 267 | 270 |
| 2024 | 240 | 237 |
| 2025 | 195 | 172 |
| 2026 | 141 | 143 |
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 enabling a collaborative 3D map data fusion platform and virtual world system thereof29 Sep 2026US 12,747,958 B2TMRW Group IP
- Augmenting lane-topology reasoning with a standard definition navigation map22 Sep 2026US 12,741,669 B2NVIDIA Corporation
- Route conversion device, route verification program, and teaching data generation method22 Sep 2026US 12,742,649 B2Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
- Vertical order determination for overlapping roadways22 Sep 2026US 12,742,654 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Route information creation apparatus and method of creating route information8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309504 A1Mitsubishi Electric Mobility Corporation
- Vehicle Collaboration and Sensor Enhancement1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296497 A1Waymo LLC
- Map matching on low sampling rate trajectories through deep inverse reinforcement learning and multi-intention modeling1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298640 A1UTI Limited Partnership
- Method, apparatus and computer program for generating map data1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298641 A1TomTom Global Content B.V.
- Driver state determination device, in-vehicle device, driver state determination system, driver state determination method, and non-transitory storage medium storing driver state determination program24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283521 A1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Driving control system for vehicle590US 5,539,397 AHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1996
- Correcting GPS position in a hybrid naviation system538US 5,394,333 AZexel USA Corporation · 1995
- Methods for sending location-based data385US 8,280,406 B2ZOS Communications, LLC · 2012
- Route guidance on/off-route state filter314US 5,508,931 AZexel Corporation · 1996
- Accident avoidance systems and methods303US 7,295,925 B2Intelligent Technologies International, Inc. · 2007