G08B 5/002
Distress signalling devices
Official title: {Distress signalling devices, e.g. rescue balloons (vehicle optical signalling for indicating emergencies B60Q1/52)}
G08B5/002 (Distress signalling devices) appears on 139 US grants and 130 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G08B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 11 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Visual distress signal device13 May 2025US 12,296,928 B2Sirius Signal Co.
- Visual alert device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0253476 A1Isar LLC
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Parafoil-borne distress signals86US 5,736,954 AS E Ventures, Inc. · 1998
- Multi-functional smoke detector and signal device85US 6,222,455 B12001
- Rescue locator signal76US 8,832,981 B2Rescued In Time, LLC · 2014
- Rescue and locational determination equipment73US 7,798,090 B22010
- Systems and methods for indicating a user state in a social network57US 8,019,875 B1Google Inc. · 2011