Number of LiDAR patents published by country 2018
This statistic shows the number of patents published with regards to LiDAR technologies in various countries in 2018. Since 2012, the United States has consistently been a hotspot for LiDAR inventions, but 2018 saw more new patent publications than any previous year with 682 patents granted. 2018 was also Germany's most active year with 234 patents.