G07F 17/0057
For the hiring or rent of vehicles
Official title: {for the hiring or rent of vehicles, e.g. cars, bicycles or wheelchairs (car rental G07B15/00)}
G07F17/0057 (For the hiring or rent of vehicles) appears on 229 US grants and 372 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07F- Granted patents
- 229
- Published applications
- 372
- Assignees
- 155
- Inventors
- 684
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
Filings by year
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 | 6 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 | 6 |
| 2011 | 2 | 4 |
| 2012 | 1 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2 | 11 |
| 2015 | 4 | 5 |
| 2016 | 4 | 7 |
| 2017 | 1 | 12 |
| 2018 | 4 | 19 |
| 2019 | 23 | 72 |
| 2020 | 30 | 64 |
| 2021 | 37 | 63 |
| 2022 | 28 | 29 |
| 2023 | 28 | 23 |
| 2024 | 30 | 13 |
| 2025 | 24 | 12 |
| 2026 | 3 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Methods and apparatus for accessing secured physical assets at a facility utilized for maintenance and management14 Jul 2026US 12,682,712 B21Micro, LLC
- Marine vessel rental system and marine vessel rental method26 May 2026US 12,637,177 B2Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
- Transportation and freight capacity units27 Jan 2026US 12,536,585 B2Circlesx LLC
- System and method for managing shared personal mobility device23 Dec 2025US 12,503,182 B2
- Computer implemented method for providing a vehicle service and triggering a process to pay for the vehicle service, software program, and system9 Dec 2025US 12,493,875 B2Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
- Curb Community Objects with Price-Time Priority Queues for Transformed Curb Capacity Units20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243578 A1
- System and method for customizing vehicle and digital asset management system16 Jul 2026US 2026/0203737 A1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Mobility vehicle reservation system and method25 Jun 2026US 2026/0178992 A1
- Wireless access control system network in which a multi-level machine-readable code system and method are deployed for initiating and enabling contact-less access control to a device available for rental, access and use in an environment28 May 2026US 2026/0148606 A1Scooterbug, Inc.
- Vehicle usage situation estimation system, vehicle usage situation estimation method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium21 May 2026US 2026/0138460 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and systems for setting and transferring user profiles to vehicles and temporary sharing of user profiles to shared-use vehicles148US 9,171,268 B12015
- Unattended automated bicycle rental station99US 5,917,407 A1999
- Battery rental system94US 6,154,006 AHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 2000
- Facilitating direct rider driver pairing for mass egress areas90US 10,192,387 B2Uber Technologies, Inc. · 2019
- Bicycle rental system and station84US 7,898,439 B22011