B60Q 2400/40
Welcome lights, i.e. specific or existing exterior lamps to assist leaving or
Official title: Welcome lights, i.e. specific or existing exterior lamps to assist leaving or approaching the vehicle
B60Q2400/40 (Welcome lights, i.e. specific or existing exterior lamps to assist leaving or) appears on 401 US grants and 438 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60Q- Granted patents
- 401
- Published applications
- 438
- Assignees
- 144
- Inventors
- 902
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 3 | 2 |
| 2003 | 3 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 4 |
| 2005 | 3 | 2 |
| 2006 | 3 | 4 |
| 2007 | 3 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 5 |
| 2009 | 1 | 6 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4 |
| 2011 | 4 | 7 |
| 2012 | 5 | 8 |
| 2013 | 3 | 11 |
| 2014 | 13 | 13 |
| 2015 | 8 | 20 |
| 2016 | 13 | 16 |
| 2017 | 33 | 47 |
| 2018 | 41 | 41 |
| 2019 | 40 | 35 |
| 2020 | 33 | 27 |
| 2021 | 27 | 41 |
| 2022 | 35 | 40 |
| 2023 | 45 | 27 |
| 2024 | 33 | 35 |
| 2025 | 26 | 15 |
| 2026 | 17 | 22 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Apparatus for controlling vehicle convenience equipment, and vehicle having the same29 Sep 2026US 12,746,876 B2Hyundai Motor Company
- Vehicular communication system25 Aug 2026US 12,715,355 B2Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.
- Lighting device for projecting an image onto the ground around a vehicle25 Aug 2026US 12,716,566 B2Valeo Vision
- Exterior lighting system for a vehicle18 Aug 2026US 12,709,219 B2Volvo Truck Corporation
- Method and apparatus for controlling welcoming of vehicle, medium, device, and vehicle11 Aug 2026US 12,703,323 B2BYD Company Limited
- Colored projection by multi-lens array projector8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309299 A1ams-OSRAM Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
- Control method for road projection display and display control device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296300 A1Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd.
- Road surface rendering device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249780 A1Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Lighting control system for vehicle20 Aug 2026US 2026/0247514 A1Caterpillar Inc.
- Systems and methods for enhanced vehicle visualization6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225518 A1Ford Global Technologies, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vehicle exterior mirror system with signal light593US 6,276,821 B1Donnelly Corporation · 2001
- Lighting device for motor vehicles379US 6,152,590 ADonnelly Hohe GmbH & Co. KG · 2000
- Vehicle exterior mirror system with signal light314US 6,416,208 B2Donnelly Corporation · 2002
- Machine-learning systems and techniques to optimize teleoperation and/or planner decisions310US 9,632,502 B1Zoox, Inc. · 2017
- Vehicle illumination system and method289US 7,987,030 B2GM Global Technology Operations LLC · 2011