B60W 2420/40
Photo, light or radio wave sensitive means
Official title: Photo, light or radio wave sensitive means, e.g. infrared sensors
B60W2420/40 (Photo, light or radio wave sensitive means) appears on 7,763 US grants and 10,515 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60W- Granted patents
- 7,763
- Published applications
- 10,515
- Assignees
- 1,253
- Inventors
- 15,643
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 4 |
| 2003 | 1 | 9 |
| 2004 | 5 | 5 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3 |
| 2006 | 7 | 14 |
| 2007 | 6 | 23 |
| 2008 | 12 | 31 |
| 2009 | 7 | 31 |
| 2010 | 19 | 40 |
| 2011 | 14 | 15 |
| 2012 | 34 | 50 |
| 2013 | 39 | 46 |
| 2014 | 56 | 77 |
| 2015 | 84 | 156 |
| 2016 | 133 | 232 |
| 2017 | 244 | 514 |
| 2018 | 389 | 761 |
| 2019 | 561 | 862 |
| 2020 | 619 | 841 |
| 2021 | 627 | 1157 |
| 2022 | 698 | 1358 |
| 2023 | 949 | 1396 |
| 2024 | 1177 | 1177 |
| 2025 | 1294 | 998 |
| 2026 | 779 | 714 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Vehicle for avoiding collision and method for operating the same6 Oct 2026US 12,752,773 B2Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
- Moving object control system, control method thereof, storage medium, and moving object6 Oct 2026US 12,752,776 B2Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- System for monitoring a position of a vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,752,779 B2Fusion Processing Limited
- Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and storage medium6 Oct 2026US 12,752,784 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Voice activated lane change with driver monitoring system validatation6 Oct 2026US 12,752,789 B2GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Trajectory presentation device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307581 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Golf vehicle with swerve detection and response8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307646 A1Textron Inc.
- Autonomously parking a semi-trailer based on a memorized representation of a scanned parking area8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307648 A1Embotech AG
- Vehicle control device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307650 A1Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
- Hybrid electric vehicle and a driving control method therefor8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307654 A1Hyundai Motor Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Object detection system for vehicle1,327US 7,038,577 B2Donnelly Corporation · 2006
- Accessory module for vehicle519US 7,480,149 B2Donnelly Corporation · 2009
- Driving pattern recognition and safety control442US 8,634,980 B1Google Inc. · 2014
- Unlock and authentication for autonomous vehicles395US 9,194,168 B1Google Inc. · 2015
- Motor car traveling control device367US 5,309,137 AMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 1994