G01S 15/66
Sonar tracking systems
G01S15/66 (Sonar tracking systems) appears on 253 US grants and 224 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01S- Granted patents
- 253
- Published applications
- 224
- Assignees
- 154
- Inventors
- 568
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 7 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 10 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 0 |
| 2002 | 5 | 1 |
| 2003 | 4 | 2 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 |
| 2005 | 3 | 6 |
| 2006 | 3 | 2 |
| 2007 | 5 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 5 |
| 2009 | 4 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 4 |
| 2011 | 3 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5 |
| 2015 | 7 | 12 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9 |
| 2017 | 10 | 16 |
| 2018 | 10 | 15 |
| 2019 | 15 | 19 |
| 2020 | 22 | 19 |
| 2021 | 19 | 21 |
| 2022 | 16 | 18 |
| 2023 | 14 | 18 |
| 2024 | 20 | 21 |
| 2025 | 15 | 13 |
| 2026 | 8 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- System and method for producing mid-air tactile stimulation8 Sep 2026US 12,730,515 B2Emerge Now Inc.
- Compact supersonic projectile tracking14 Jul 2026US 12,680,792 B2Synchrosense Ltd.
- System and method of tracking an object that is at least partly buried in seabed7 Jul 2026US 12,674,908 B2Kongsberg Discovery AS
- Steering assemblies and associated methods16 Jun 2026US 12,656,489 B2Navico, Inc.
- Arithmetic device and arithmetic method26 May 2026US 12,638,577 B2Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
- Ultrasound motion tracking to evaluate renal functionality11 Jun 2026US 2026/0157722 A1The Regents of the University of Michigan
- System and method for generating echo trails of moving objects for a set of display ranges4 Jun 2026US 2026/0153617 A1Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
- Method and Object Tracking Unit for Sensor-Based Object Tracking and Correspondingly Configured Motor Vehicle26 Mar 2026US 2026/0086223 A1Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
- Transmitting device for use in location determination systems12 Mar 2026US 2026/0072163 A1Sonitor Technologies AS
- Object tracking device4 Dec 2025US 2025/0370117 A1Denso Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for carrying out a medical procedure using a three-dimensional tracking and imaging system968US 6,246,898 B1Sonometrics Corporation · 2001
- Method for carrying out a medical procedure using a three-dimensional tracking and imaging system862US 5,797,849 ASonometrics Corporation · 1998
- Three-dimensional digital ultrasound tracking system471US 5,515,853 ASonometrics Corporation · 1996
- Multiple ultrasound image registration system, method and transducer410US 6,014,473 AAcuson Corporation · 2000
- System for carrying out surgery, biopsy and ablation of a tumor or other physical anomaly383US 5,868,673 ASonometrics Corporation · 1999