B60K 31/00

Vehicle fittings, acting on a single sub-unit only, for automatically controlling vehicle

Official title: Vehicle fittings, acting on a single sub-unit only, for automatically controlling vehicle speed, i.e. preventing speed from exceeding an arbitrarily established velocity or maintaining speed at a particular velocity, as selected by the vehicle operator

B60K31/00 (Vehicle fittings, acting on a single sub-unit only, for automatically controlling vehicle) appears on 2,580 US grants and 1,788 published applications in this corpus.

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Year	Granted patents	Published applications
1976	24	0
1977	11	0
1978	29	0
1979	25	0
1980	22	0
1981	18	0
1982	29	0
1983	24	0
1984	24	0
1985	35	0
1986	24	0
1987	29	0
1988	34	0
1989	58	0
1990	61	0
1991	54	0
1992	51	0
1993	34	0
1994	24	0
1995	28	0
1996	39	0
1997	52	0
1998	45	0
1999	53	0
2000	66	0
2001	106	37
2002	98	91
2003	86	107
2004	73	98
2005	77	110
2006	59	39
2007	52	59
2008	47	40
2009	31	33
2010	36	30
2011	23	23
2012	33	28
2013	29	63
2014	44	85
2015	73	87
2016	92	75
2017	79	107
2018	82	124
2019	97	97
2020	92	103
2021	80	88
2022	66	69
2023	58	60
2024	80	60
2025	56	51
2026	38	24

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