G09B 29/106
Using electronic means
Official title: {using electronic means}
G09B29/106 (Using electronic means) appears on 1,071 US grants and 1,021 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G09B- Granted patents
- 1,071
- Published applications
- 1,021
- Assignees
- 437
- Inventors
- 2,103
- Latest grant
- 30 Jun 2026
Filings by year
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| 2023 | 18 | 19 |
| 2024 | 21 | 15 |
| 2025 | 9 | 7 |
| 2026 | 5 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Progressive display in multi-zoom digital map30 Jun 2026US 12,670,814 B2Apple Inc.
- Systems and methods for facilitating touring in a vehicle28 Apr 2026US 12,614,475 B2
- Display control device, head-up display device, and display control method10 Mar 2026US 12,571,652 B2Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd.
- Map information update method3 Mar 2026US 12,567,344 B2Socionext Inc.
- Methods and systems for compressing digital elevation model data20 Jan 2026US 12,530,807 B2Onxmaps, Inc.
- Progressive display in multi-zoom digital map1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301607 A1Apple Inc.
- Map annotation data generation for autonomous vehicles13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235415 A1Five AI Limited
- Digital rescue sheet for buildings16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202808 A1ZF Friedrichshafen AG
- Methods and systems for generating route data26 Feb 2026US 2026/0056024 A1TomTom Global Content B.V.
- Systems and methods for alternative projections of geographical information15 Jan 2026US 2026/0016305 A1Palantir Technologies Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Travel reservation information and planning system2,363US 5,948,040 ADeLorme Publishing Co. · 1999
- Integrated routing/mapping information1,518US 6,321,158 B1DeLorme Publishing Co. · 2001
- Method and system for associating content with map zoom function1,230US 8,504,945 B22013
- Computer aided routing and positioning system1,042US 5,802,492 ADeLorme Publishing Co. · 1998
- Computer aided map location system1,031US 5,848,373 ADeLorme Publishing Co. · 1998