G08G 1/20
Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group
Official title: {Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles}
G08G1/20 (Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group) appears on 5,426 US grants and 6,622 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G08G- Granted patents
- 5,426
- Published applications
- 6,622
- Assignees
- 1,558
- Inventors
- 10,474
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 36 | 22 |
| 2002 | 85 | 138 |
| 2003 | 81 | 110 |
| 2004 | 89 | 137 |
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| 2024 | 482 | 365 |
| 2025 | 333 | 273 |
| 2026 | 165 | 139 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Telematics based on handset movement within a moving vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,755,323 B2Arity 875, LLC
- Autonomous vehicle planned route prediction29 Sep 2026US 12,747,957 B2Uber Technologies, Inc.
- Method for monitoring vehicles22 Sep 2026US 12,743,958 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Method and system for using a situational network22 Sep 2026US 12,745,322 B2SitNet LLC
- Apparatus and method for estimating location of vehicle15 Sep 2026US 12,736,352 B2SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for variable reporting of sensor data8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311589 A1Oshkosh Corporation
- Competitive and collaborative autonomous vehicle task performance8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311598 A1AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P.
- Systems and methods to group and move vehicles cooperatively to mitigate anomalous driving behavior1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301563 A1Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
- Vehicle dispatch system, vehicle dispatch control device, and vehicle dispatch method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290163 A1Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
- Universal control architecture for control of unmanned systems17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277211 A1Tomahawk Robotics, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vehicle communication and remote control system1,045US 6,028,537 APrince Corporation · 2000
- Personal security system986US 5,334,974 A1994
- GPS vehicle collision avoidance warning and control system and method961US 5,983,161 A1999
- System for the security and auditing of persons and property914US 5,825,283 A1998
- Method and structure for distribution of travel information using network749US 5,959,577 AVectorlink, Inc. · 1999