H04W 4/40
For vehicles
Official title: for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
H04W4/40 (For vehicles) appears on 15,732 US grants and 20,615 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04W- Granted patents
- 15,732
- Published applications
- 20,615
- Assignees
- 2,842
- Inventors
- 24,473
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 7 |
| 2003 | 5 | 11 |
| 2004 | 6 | 20 |
| 2005 | 6 | 24 |
| 2006 | 10 | 21 |
| 2007 | 8 | 21 |
| 2008 | 17 | 44 |
| 2009 | 14 | 43 |
| 2010 | 11 | 38 |
| 2011 | 32 | 64 |
| 2012 | 50 | 163 |
| 2013 | 75 | 218 |
| 2014 | 164 | 337 |
| 2015 | 234 | 390 |
| 2016 | 315 | 535 |
| 2017 | 488 | 762 |
| 2018 | 701 | 1300 |
| 2019 | 1077 | 2068 |
| 2020 | 1636 | 2843 |
| 2021 | 1829 | 2825 |
| 2022 | 2096 | 2866 |
| 2023 | 1985 | 2188 |
| 2024 | 2204 | 1631 |
| 2025 | 1805 | 1348 |
| 2026 | 947 | 847 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- In-vehicle infotainment system and method therefor, vehicle, medium and program product6 Oct 2026US 12,752,627 B2Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
- Information display apparatus for vehicle and method for displaying information using the same6 Oct 2026US 12,752,699 B2Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
- Methods and systems for decentralized rail signaling and positive train control6 Oct 2026US 12,752,823 B2Metrom Rail, LLC
- Methods, and unmanned aerial systems for obtaining meteorological data6 Oct 2026US 12,754,345 B2Alveo AB
- Clustering of high dimensional data and use thereof in cyber security6 Oct 2026US 12,755,018 B2Darktrace Holdings Limited
- Method for activating a vehicle function and associated activation device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307621 A1Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
- Systems and methods for vehicle positioning8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309876 A1Tesla, Inc.
- Data storage and transfer device for an agricultural intelligence computing system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311524 A1Climate LLC
- Real-time selection of data to collect in autonomous vehicle8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311526 A1Lodestar Licensing Group LLC
- Competitive and collaborative autonomous vehicle task performance8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311598 A1AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vehicle locating and communicating method and apparatus using cellular telephone network486US 5,299,132 ABy-Word Technologies, Inc. · 1994
- Wireless information system for acquiring location related information435US 5,559,520 ALucent Technologies Inc. · 1996
- Time-slot-based system and method of inter-vehicle communication390US 8,520,695 B1Zetta Research and Development, LLC - ForC Series · 2013
- Vehicular traffic alerts for avoidance of abnormal traffic conditions387US 9,805,601 B1State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · 2017
- Accident response using autonomous vehicle monitoring385US 9,646,428 B1State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · 2017