B60S 1/0859
Other types of detection of rain
Official title: {Other types of detection of rain, e.g. by measuring friction or rain drop impact}
B60S1/0859 (Other types of detection of rain) appears on 48 US grants and 45 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60S- Granted patents
- 48
- Published applications
- 45
- Assignees
- 34
- Inventors
- 123
- Latest grant
- 1 Jul 2025
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| 2026 | 0 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Rain detection using exterior microphones1 Jul 2025US 12,344,198 B1Zoox, Inc.
- Atmospheric property estimation system and method in dynamic environments using LIDAR24 Dec 2024US 12,172,607 B2GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Device and method for controlling a wiper of a vehicle3 Sep 2024US 12,077,133 B2Hyundai Motor Company
- Acoustic emission based device control27 Aug 2024US 12,071,106 B2Motional AD LLC
- Automatic rain response system30 Jul 2024US 12,049,199 B2GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Wiper control device and wiper control method13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233704 A1Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
- Wiping device16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200436 A1Mitsuba Corporation
- Systems and methods for controlling operation of vehicle wipers12 Feb 2026US 2026/0042422 A1Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Vehicle control method, vehicle, and storage medium15 May 2025US 2025/0153684 A1BYD Company Limited
- Rain sensor phantom wipe prevention27 Mar 2025US 2025/0100511 A1Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Moisture sensitive automatic windshield wiper and headlight control device346US 5,027,001 A1991
- Windshield wiper system50US 6,281,649 B1McCord Winn Textron Inc. · 2001
- Automatic windshield wiper speed control with piezoelectric sensor49US 4,527,105 ANissan Motor Co., Ltd. · 1985
- Rain condition dependent wiper control system for an automotive vehicle43US 4,542,325 AJidosha Denki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1985
- Automatic windshield wiper apparatus with raindrop detector for automotive vehicles and methods for automatically controlling wiper apparatus39US 5,119,002 AJidosha Denki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1992