B60W 2420/54
Audio sensitive means
Official title: Audio sensitive means, e.g. ultrasound
B60W2420/54 (Audio sensitive means) appears on 985 US grants and 1,339 published applications in this corpus.
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2023 | 107 | 137 |
| 2024 | 131 | 137 |
| 2025 | 145 | 108 |
| 2026 | 77 | 88 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Preparing autonomous vehicles for turns8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307681 A1Waymo LLC
- Systems and methods for emergency collision avoidance for an autonomous vehicle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296413 A1
- World models for processing vehicle sensor data1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296454 A1Waymo LLC
- Method and system for intuitive vehicle awareness during driving1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296479 A1American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
- Radar systems and method for backing a trailer1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299121 A1Outrider Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Remote vehicle diagnostic management261US 7,650,210 B2Automotive Technologies International, Inc. · 2010
- Determining when to drive autonomously242US 8,718,861 B1Google Inc. · 2014
- Determining when to drive autonomously236US 8,954,217 B1Google Inc. · 2015
- Systems and methods for hazard mitigation207US 9,701,307 B12017
- Facilitating vehicle driving and self-driving139US 9,645,577 B1nuTonomy Inc. · 2017