B60W 40/02
Related to ambient conditions
Official title: related to ambient conditions
B60W40/02 (Related to ambient conditions) appears on 5,119 US grants and 6,741 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60W- Granted patents
- 5,119
- Published applications
- 6,741
- Assignees
- 960
- Inventors
- 11,277
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 6 | 0 |
| 1998 | 13 | 0 |
| 1999 | 6 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 12 | 6 |
| 2002 | 11 | 10 |
| 2003 | 15 | 12 |
| 2004 | 9 | 22 |
| 2005 | 11 | 44 |
| 2006 | 17 | 41 |
| 2007 | 23 | 47 |
| 2008 | 23 | 64 |
| 2009 | 28 | 75 |
| 2010 | 41 | 89 |
| 2011 | 53 | 45 |
| 2012 | 68 | 68 |
| 2013 | 65 | 86 |
| 2014 | 73 | 73 |
| 2015 | 129 | 158 |
| 2016 | 107 | 178 |
| 2017 | 187 | 264 |
| 2018 | 196 | 387 |
| 2019 | 278 | 503 |
| 2020 | 354 | 640 |
| 2021 | 401 | 751 |
| 2022 | 527 | 861 |
| 2023 | 591 | 930 |
| 2024 | 719 | 722 |
| 2025 | 780 | 422 |
| 2026 | 370 | 243 |
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
- Preceding vehicle identification apparatus and preceding vehicle identification method6 Oct 2026US 12,752,790 B2Denso Corporation
- Systems and methods for automotive sensing6 Oct 2026US 12,752,791 B2PolyN Technology Limited
- System and method for object reconstruction and automatic motion-based object classification6 Oct 2026US 12,754,319 B2BlueSpace.ai, Inc.
- Computer system for providing control data for a vehicle based on a ground surface type8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307652 A1Volvo Truck Corporation
- Vehicle Control Device, Vehicle Control Method, and Steering System1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296401 A1Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
- Adaptive cruise control of a motor vehicle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296434 A1MAGNA Automotive Europe GmbH
- Control system and method for controlling a vehicle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296441 A1Jaguar Land Rover Limited
- Road surface condition determination method, storage medium, road surface condition determination device, server device, moving object, and route searching device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296445 A1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Object detection system for vehicle991US 7,720,580 B2Donnelly Corporation · 2010
- Method and system for controlling a vehicle669US 7,085,637 B2Intelligent Technologies International, Inc. · 2006
- Method and system for detecting objects external to a vehicle669US 7,202,776 B2Intelligent Technologies International, Inc. · 2007
- Accessory module for vehicle519US 7,480,149 B2Donnelly Corporation · 2009
- Vehicular collision avoidance system496US 7,124,027 B1Yazaki North America, Inc. · 2006