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Bosch, Toyota Lead Patent Applications for Self-Driving Cars
Bosch has filed the most patent applications (2,710) related to autonomous vehicle technologies since 2010, according to a study by Grunecker Patent Attorneys.
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Bosch has filed the most patent applications (2,710) related to autonomous vehicle technologies since 2010, according to a study by Munich-based patent attorneys Grunecker.
The firm says Toyota filed the second-most such applications (2,061) during the period, followed by Volkswagen (1,173) and Denso (1,022). No other company had more than 1,000 applications.
The rest of the top 10 applicants were Honda (882), Nissan (821), Daimler (793), Continental (714), General Motors (713) and Hitachi (598). BMW and Ford ranked 13th and 16th with 404 and 349 autonomous vehicle patent applications, respectively.
Google has filed just 140 such applications since 2010, making it 26th on the list. But nearly half of those were filed last year. Grunecker expects Google to move up rapidly in coming years and eventually surpass BMW and Ford.
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