G09B 29/004
Map manufacture or repair
Official title: {Map manufacture or repair; Tear or ink or water resistant maps; Long-life maps (printing processes for maps B41M3/02; by permanently attaching map sections to sheets B42B7/00)}
G09B29/004 (Map manufacture or repair) appears on 92 US grants and 102 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G09B- Granted patents
- 92
- Published applications
- 102
- Assignees
- 57
- Inventors
- 201
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Map generation system, in-vehicle device25 Aug 2026US 12,716,728 B2Denso Corporation
- Output preparing method used in producing layer catalogue of geostamps in the atlas format16 Jun 2026US 12,658,075 B2
- Three-dimensional tactile map system9 Jun 2026US 12,651,537 B2Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
- Map generation method and map generation device17 Jun 2025US 12,332,078 B2Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
- Techniques for collaborative map construction between an unmanned aerial vehicle and a ground vehicle11 Feb 2025US 12,222,218 B2Sz Dji Technology Co., Ltd.
- Perception-Based Navigation for Mobile Machines4 Dec 2025US 2025/0370456 A1Caterpillar Inc.
- Techniques for collaborative map construction between an unmanned aerial vehicle and a ground vehicle16 May 2024US 2024/0159557 A1Sz Dji Technology Co., Ltd.
- Output Preparing Method Used in Producing Layer Catalogue of Geostamps in the Atlas Format9 Nov 2023US 2023/0360563 A1
- Autonomous room boundary detection and classification with low resolution sensors11 May 2023US 2023/0142829 A1Jdrf Electromag Engineering Inc.
- Map generation method and map generation device11 May 2023US 2023/0144543 A1Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Digital mapping system549US 7,158,878 B2Google Inc. · 2007
- Digital mapping system470US 7,379,811 B2Google Inc. · 2008
- Digital mapping system291US 7,894,984 B2Google Inc. · 2011
- Using depth-camera images to speed registration of three-dimensional scans51US 9,618,620 B2Faro Technologies, Inc. · 2017
- Intermediate two-dimensional scanning with a three-dimensional scanner to speed registration44US 9,372,265 B2Faro Technologies, Inc. · 2016