G06F 16/787
Using geographical or spatial information
Official title: using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
G06F16/787 (Using geographical or spatial information) appears on 278 US grants and 365 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 278
- Published applications
- 365
- Assignees
- 172
- Inventors
- 650
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 5 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 4 | 14 |
| 2009 | 0 | 10 |
| 2010 | 1 | 8 |
| 2011 | 3 | 6 |
| 2012 | 10 | 18 |
| 2013 | 7 | 28 |
| 2014 | 18 | 19 |
| 2015 | 24 | 22 |
| 2016 | 15 | 14 |
| 2017 | 15 | 30 |
| 2018 | 11 | 14 |
| 2019 | 22 | 20 |
| 2020 | 28 | 27 |
| 2021 | 21 | 37 |
| 2022 | 18 | 16 |
| 2023 | 30 | 26 |
| 2024 | 18 | 17 |
| 2025 | 18 | 18 |
| 2026 | 10 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Montaging system1 Sep 2026US 12,724,822 B2Insightful Mechanisms LLC
- Video surveillance system using visual trail mapping25 Aug 2026US 12,720,012 B2Milestone Systems A/S
- System and method for record identification11 Aug 2026US 12,705,245 B2Genetec Inc.
- System and method for adaptive orchestrated process parallelization26 May 2026US 12,639,592 B2Everseen Limited
- Summary generation based on trip19 May 2026US 12,632,497 B2Snap Inc.
- Summary generation based on trip3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259928 A1Snap Inc.
- Video and Audio Multimodal Searching System2 Jul 2026US 2026/0187144 A1Google Inc.
- Information processing apparatus25 Jun 2026US 2026/0178662 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Systems and Methods for Entity, Relationship, and Timeline Generation from Complex Object Sets25 Jun 2026US 2026/0179162 A1Tranquility AI Inc.
- Ai agentic systems for scene understanding4 Jun 2026US 2026/0154337 A1NVIDIA Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Embedded metadata engines in digital capture devices382US 7,403,224 B2Virage, Inc. · 2008
- Seamlessly switching among unicast, multicast, and broadcast mobile media content270US 8,219,134 B2Quickplay Media Inc. · 2012
- Identifying media content in queries207US 8,005,826 B1Google Inc. · 2011
- Embedded metadata engines in digital capture devices204US 6,833,865 B1Virage, Inc. · 2004
- Method and apparatus for efficiently representing storing and accessing video information188US 6,956,573 B1Sarnoff Corporation · 2005