B60W 40/06
Road conditions
B60W40/06 (Road conditions) appears on 2,643 US grants and 3,424 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60W- Granted patents
- 2,643
- Published applications
- 3,424
- Assignees
- 655
- Inventors
- 6,212
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2008 | 13 | 41 |
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| 2010 | 23 | 60 |
| 2011 | 31 | 34 |
| 2012 | 40 | 49 |
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| 2014 | 51 | 61 |
| 2015 | 88 | 108 |
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| 2017 | 117 | 140 |
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| 2020 | 173 | 338 |
| 2021 | 216 | 379 |
| 2022 | 274 | 406 |
| 2023 | 295 | 396 |
| 2024 | 310 | 337 |
| 2025 | 359 | 217 |
| 2026 | 184 | 115 |
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
- 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.
- Providing advanced warning of upcoming changes in road conditions and geographic data to a vehicle driver6 Oct 2026US 12,755,633 B2Robert Bosch GmbH
- Lane-based vehicle operations29 Sep 2026US 12,746,917 B2Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- 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
- 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
- Driving pattern recognition and safety control442US 8,634,980 B1Google Inc. · 2014
- System and method for predicting behaviors of detected objects362US 8,660,734 B2Google Inc. · 2014
- Autonomous control in a dense vehicle environment354US 9,079,587 B1Ford Global Technologies, LLC · 2015