G08B 21/06
Indicating a condition of sleep
Official title: indicating a condition of sleep, e.g. anti-dozing alarms
G08B21/06 (Indicating a condition of sleep) appears on 1,135 US grants and 1,249 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G08B- Granted patents
- 1,135
- Published applications
- 1,249
- Assignees
- 477
- Inventors
- 2,316
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 5 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 14 | 12 |
| 2003 | 6 | 15 |
| 2004 | 13 | 34 |
| 2005 | 12 | 22 |
| 2006 | 23 | 33 |
| 2007 | 19 | 22 |
| 2008 | 16 | 31 |
| 2009 | 16 | 33 |
| 2010 | 26 | 36 |
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| 2012 | 27 | 40 |
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| 2014 | 35 | 121 |
| 2015 | 72 | 81 |
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| 2017 | 59 | 97 |
| 2018 | 84 | 71 |
| 2019 | 78 | 80 |
| 2020 | 83 | 87 |
| 2021 | 68 | 72 |
| 2022 | 67 | 59 |
| 2023 | 49 | 52 |
| 2024 | 55 | 43 |
| 2025 | 28 | 38 |
| 2026 | 30 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Vehicles including split-bus architectures3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259945 A1AutoConnect Holdings LLC
- Calculation module, system and computer-implemented method for determining at least one cause of a visual fatigue of a patient27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248428 A1Essilor International
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sleep detection and driver alert apparatus480US 5,689,241 A1997
- System and method for preventing automobile accidents412US 6,060,989 ALucent Technologies Inc. · 2000
- Driver health and fatigue monitoring system and method391US 8,725,311 B1American Vehicular Sciences LLC · 2014
- Method and apparatus for determining driver fitness in real time389US 5,465,079 AVorad Safety Systems, Inc. · 1995
- Target orientation estimation using depth sensing385US 7,620,202 B2Honda Motor Co., Ltd. · 2009