B60W 60/0018
By employing degraded modes
Official title: {by employing degraded modes, e.g. reducing speed, in response to suboptimal conditions}
B60W60/0018 (By employing degraded modes) appears on 668 US grants and 950 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60W- Granted patents
- 668
- Published applications
- 950
- Assignees
- 222
- Inventors
- 1,881
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2011 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2013 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 6 | 5 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5 |
| 2017 | 7 | 6 |
| 2018 | 10 | 29 |
| 2019 | 14 | 42 |
| 2020 | 25 | 118 |
| 2021 | 36 | 140 |
| 2022 | 116 | 143 |
| 2023 | 91 | 128 |
| 2024 | 110 | 120 |
| 2025 | 151 | 131 |
| 2026 | 98 | 79 |
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Recent patents
- Systems and methods of sensor data fusion6 Oct 2026US 12,754,977 B2Digital Global Systems, Inc.
- Systems, program products, and methods for controlling autonomous vehicles traveling within environments29 Sep 2026US 12,746,916 B2TORC Robotics, Inc.
- Systems and methods of sensor data fusion29 Sep 2026US 12,748,823 B2Digital Global Systems, Inc.
- Path planning system and method for a vehicle22 Sep 2026US 12,741,676 B2GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Systems and methods of sensor data fusion22 Sep 2026US 12,743,058 B2Digital Global Systems, Inc.
- Iterative projection and evaluation of scene states using end to end neural networks for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems and applications8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307676 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Detection of latent failures in autonomous vehicles8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307682 A1Cavnue Technology, LLC
- Fail-safe corrective actions based on vision information for autonomous vehicles17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274304 A1Tesla, Inc.
- Sensing data exchange for field-of-view expansion in autonomous vehicles13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233755 A1Waymo LLC
- Methods and systems for measuring sensor visibility13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233756 A1Motional AD LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Detecting sensor degradation by actively controlling an autonomous vehicle277US 9,274,525 B1Google Inc. · 2016
- Construction zone sign detection using light detection and ranging238US 9,056,395 B1Google Inc. · 2015
- Construction zone object detection using light detection and ranging210US 8,996,228 B1Google Inc. · 2015
- Method and system for ensuring operation of limited-ability autonomous driving vehicles201US 8,618,922 B2GM Global Technology Operations LLC · 2013
- Redundant lane sensing systems for fault-tolerant vehicular lateral controller164US 9,542,846 B2GM Global Technology Operations LLC · 2017