B60W 60/00
Drive control systems specially adapted for autonomous road vehicles
B60W60/00 (Drive control systems specially adapted for autonomous road vehicles) appears on 11,639 US grants and 16,709 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60W- Granted patents
- 11,639
- Published applications
- 16,709
- Assignees
- 1,466
- Inventors
- 20,828
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2011 | 8 | 7 |
| 2012 | 5 | 12 |
| 2013 | 16 | 18 |
| 2014 | 40 | 39 |
| 2015 | 77 | 132 |
| 2016 | 110 | 162 |
| 2017 | 188 | 361 |
| 2018 | 311 | 697 |
| 2019 | 507 | 1215 |
| 2020 | 748 | 1553 |
| 2021 | 813 | 2212 |
| 2022 | 1388 | 2396 |
| 2023 | 1744 | 2456 |
| 2024 | 2048 | 2252 |
| 2025 | 2167 | 1860 |
| 2026 | 1458 | 1318 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,752,739 B2Mico Latta Inc.
- Moving object control system, control method thereof, storage medium, and moving object6 Oct 2026US 12,752,776 B2Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- System and method for real time verification of motion estimation via map plausible localization6 Oct 2026US 12,752,795 B2TORC Robotics, Inc.
- Electronic apparatus for controlling function of vehicle, and method thereby6 Oct 2026US 12,752,797 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Entertainment method for operating a vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,752,798 B2Audi AG
- Real-time assisted control of a smart vehicle using artificial intelligence tools8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307662 A1State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
- Method of enhancing vehicle safety, method of controlling vehicle operation, processing system, vehicle, and machine-readable instruction code8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307665 A1TomTom International B.V.
- Towing detection for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems and applications8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307671 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- System and method for translating natural language traffic rules into formal logic for autonomous moving vehicles8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307673 A1Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH
- Method and system for predicting external agent behavior8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307674 A1May Mobility, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Association management in a wireless node network755US 8,989,053 B1Fedex Corporate Services, Inc. · 2015
- Altering autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle operation based on route traversal values449US 9,587,952 B1Allstate Insurance Company · 2017
- Driving pattern recognition and safety control442US 8,634,980 B1Google Inc. · 2014
- Autonomous vehicle with driver presence and physiological monitoring426US 8,874,301 B1Ford Global Technologies, LLC · 2014
- Unlock and authentication for autonomous vehicles395US 9,194,168 B1Google Inc. · 2015