G01C 21/34
Route searching
Official title: Route searching; Route guidance
G01C21/34 (Route searching) appears on 19,920 US grants and 26,202 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01C- Granted patents
- 19,920
- Published applications
- 26,202
- Assignees
- 3,458
- Inventors
- 35,987
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1986 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 33 | 0 |
| 1997 | 35 | 0 |
| 1998 | 83 | 0 |
| 1999 | 96 | 0 |
| 2000 | 120 | 0 |
| 2001 | 141 | 91 |
| 2002 | 186 | 200 |
| 2003 | 171 | 216 |
| 2004 | 185 | 301 |
| 2005 | 181 | 327 |
| 2006 | 169 | 378 |
| 2007 | 145 | 414 |
| 2008 | 160 | 539 |
| 2009 | 248 | 626 |
| 2010 | 274 | 663 |
| 2011 | 319 | 767 |
| 2012 | 448 | 696 |
| 2013 | 643 | 937 |
| 2014 | 800 | 1028 |
| 2015 | 970 | 1196 |
| 2016 | 998 | 1299 |
| 2017 | 1171 | 1443 |
| 2018 | 1175 | 1651 |
| 2019 | 1376 | 1932 |
| 2020 | 1445 | 2314 |
| 2021 | 1496 | 2137 |
| 2022 | 1475 | 1823 |
| 2023 | 1587 | 1648 |
| 2024 | 1520 | 1549 |
| 2025 | 1265 | 1207 |
| 2026 | 805 | 820 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- 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
- Co-presence presentation system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,024 B2Uber Technologies, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for electric vehicle routing and energy consumption thereof6 Oct 2026US 12,754,025 B2HERE Global B. V.
- 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
- Method, user terminal and server for displaying object including plurality of place information in mapping service8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309510 A1Kakao Corp.
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