B60N 2210/22
Optical
Official title: Optical; Photoelectric; Lidar [Light Detection and Ranging]
B60N2210/22 (Optical) appears on 723 US grants and 927 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60N- Granted patents
- 723
- Published applications
- 927
- Assignees
- 255
- Inventors
- 1,561
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 7 | 2 |
| 2002 | 8 | 9 |
| 2003 | 6 | 8 |
| 2004 | 12 | 11 |
| 2005 | 5 | 13 |
| 2006 | 7 | 14 |
| 2007 | 7 | 20 |
| 2008 | 14 | 27 |
| 2009 | 11 | 12 |
| 2010 | 11 | 9 |
| 2011 | 13 | 4 |
| 2012 | 11 | 10 |
| 2013 | 11 | 11 |
| 2014 | 7 | 67 |
| 2015 | 20 | 15 |
| 2016 | 26 | 57 |
| 2017 | 37 | 74 |
| 2018 | 52 | 84 |
| 2019 | 58 | 81 |
| 2020 | 71 | 115 |
| 2021 | 64 | 84 |
| 2022 | 71 | 60 |
| 2023 | 61 | 61 |
| 2024 | 50 | 28 |
| 2025 | 42 | 31 |
| 2026 | 17 | 20 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Determining and responding to an internal status of a vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,754,550 B2Waymo LLC
- Anti-submarining seat system1 Sep 2026US 12,722,535 B2Volvo Car Corporation
- Vehicle seat headrest adjustment system11 Aug 2026US 12,703,269 B2
- Seat control device, storage medium storing computer program for controlling seat and method for controlling seat7 Jul 2026US 12,673,586 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Remote operation assistance server, remote operation assistance system, and remote operation assistance method7 Jul 2026US 12,674,301 B2Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
- Vehicles including split-bus architectures3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259945 A1AutoConnect Holdings LLC
- Monitoring System for a Vehicle Cabin27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249863 A1Volvo Car Corporation
- Method for reducing or avoiding kinetosis13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233569 A1Mercedes-Benz Group AG
- Method for operating a heating system of a vehicle13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233577 A1Mercedes-Benz Group AG
- Seat sensor system for a vehicle13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233637 A1GM Global Technology Operations LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automatic rearview mirror, vehicle lighting control and vehicle interior monitoring system using a photosensor array1,303US 5,877,897 ADonnelly Corporation · 1999
- Rain sensor with fog discrimination864US 6,353,392 B1Donnelly Corporation · 2002
- Rain sensor797US 6,313,454 B1Donnelly Corporation · 2001
- Interior rearview mirror system including a forward facing video device733US 6,806,452 B2Donnelly Corporation · 2004
- Optical identification and monitoring system using pattern recognition for use with vehicles656US 5,845,000 AAutomotive Technologies International, Inc. · 1998