B60W 30/16
Control of distance between vehicles
Official title: Control of distance between vehicles, e.g. keeping a distance to preceding vehicle
B60W30/16 (Control of distance between vehicles) appears on 2,332 US grants and 3,139 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60W- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 3,139
- Assignees
- 438
- Inventors
- 4,685
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 206 | 159 |
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
- Personalized adaptive cruise control (P-ACC) based on in-cabin data6 Oct 2026US 12,752,780 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Adaptive cruise control system and method6 Oct 2026US 12,752,785 B2International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC
- Path determination for vehicles6 Oct 2026US 12,752,786 B2Volvo Autonomous Solutions AB
- Traveling control apparatus29 Sep 2026US 12,746,920 B2Subaru Corporation
- AI-Assisted Vehicle Communication and Safety System for Tailgating Detection8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311595 A1
- Vehicle driving assistance apparatus, vehicle driving assistance method, and storage medium storing vehicle driving assistance program1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296425 A1Denso Corporation
- Vehicle control apparatus and program1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296426 A1Denso Corporation
- Autonomous vehicle and method of controlling the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296494 A1Hyundai Motor Company
- Manual control re-engagement in an autonomous vehicle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299622 A1State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Object detection system for vehicle1,327US 7,038,577 B2Donnelly Corporation · 2006
- Method for recognizing a change in lane of a vehicle417US 6,889,161 B2Robert Bosch GmbH · 2005
- Motor car traveling control device367US 5,309,137 AMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 1994
- Modifying behavior of autonomous vehicle based on predicted behavior of other vehicles348US 8,457,827 B1Google Inc. · 2013
- Accident avoidance systems and methods303US 7,295,925 B2Intelligent Technologies International, Inc. · 2007