G01C 21/3878
Hierarchical structures
Official title: {Hierarchical structures, e.g. layering}
G01C21/3878 (Hierarchical structures) appears on 329 US grants and 402 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01C- Granted patents
- 329
- Published applications
- 402
- Assignees
- 172
- Inventors
- 821
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 14 | 32 |
| 2024 | 16 | 15 |
| 2025 | 17 | 22 |
| 2026 | 12 | 25 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- System and method for compressed high-definition (HD) map generation29 Sep 2026US 12,747,963 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- High definition mapping15 Sep 2026US 12,736,368 B2NVIDIA Corporation
- High definition map based localization optimization8 Sep 2026US 12,729,966 B2NVIDIA Corporation
- System and methods for configuring dynamic graphical user interfaces8 Sep 2026US 12,729,977 B1Centralsquare Technologies, LLC
- Digital map data with enhanced functional safety18 Aug 2026US 12,710,286 B2TomTom Global Content B.V.
- Method for creating a digital road map1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298664 A1
- System and method for generating a bird's eye view map30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219059 A1GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Label location adjustment for multi-layer map30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219061 A1Jeppesen ForeFlight, Inc.
- Information processing device and method for processing map data used for autonomous driving of vehicle30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219063 A1Denso Corporation
- Method for agentic course of action generation and simulation via spatial reasoning30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219069 A1Exia Labs, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Object-based geographic information system (GIS)351US 6,247,019 B1PRC Public Sector, Inc. · 2001
- Geographic location referencing system and method229US 5,839,088 AGO2 Software, Inc. · 1998
- Information mapping approaches187US 7,373,244 B22008
- Geographic location referencing system and method177US 6,047,236 AGO2 Software, Inc. · 2000
- Method and system for providing a preview of a route calculated with a navigation system167US 6,249,742 B1Navigation Technologies Corp. · 2001