B60K 31/0008
Including means for detecting potential obstacles in vehicle path
Official title: {including means for detecting potential obstacles in vehicle path}
B60K31/0008 (Including means for detecting potential obstacles in vehicle path) appears on 898 US grants and 717 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60K- Granted patents
- 898
- Published applications
- 717
- Assignees
- 228
- Inventors
- 1,482
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B60K 2031/0025Detecting position of target vehicleIndexing code85
- B60K 2031/0016Identification of obstaclesIndexing code64
- B60K 2031/0033Detecting longitudinal speed or acceleration of target vehicleIndexing code45
- B60K 2031/005Selecting more than one target vehicleIndexing code11
- B60K 2031/0041Detecting lateral speed of target vehicleIndexing code9
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