LiDAR patents published worldwide by organization 2010-2018
This statistic shows the leading 20 owners of LiDAR patents worldwide between 2010 and 2018 and the number of patent families published for each company in that time period. Patents that only apply in China are not included, though. A patent family comprises grants and applications for a single individual invention in individual countries, according to the source. The German engineering company, Bosch, has the highest number of patents to its name, with 215 related publications between 2010 and 2019. With 128 publications, Ford was the leading American publisher, and was ranked third.