Portfolio comparison
Waymo vs Intuitive Surgical Operations
Side-by-side portfolio analysis — patents indexed, year ranges, and activity timeline.
Company A
Waymo
Patents indexed
3
Year range
2024 – 2025
Most recent
2025
automotiveai_mlsoftwaretelecommunicationsaerospace
Top Patents3 enriched
US 12409808· 2025
How Self-Driving Cars Detect and Respond to Road Emergencies
US 12130389· 2024
How Self-Driving Cars Detect Dirty Lidar Sensors
US 20210181737
How Autonomous Trucks Predict and Handle Tire Blowouts
Activity by Decade
2020s2
Company B
Intuitive Surgical Operations
Patents indexed
4
Year range
2018 – 2024
Most recent
2024
roboticsmedical_devicessoftwaremechanicalsurgical
Top Patents4 enriched
US 12114954· 2024
Uniform Scaling of Haptic Forces in Surgical Systems
US 12064197· 2024
How a Robot Arm Can Be Manually Moved While Staying Safe
US 9949801· 2018
How Surgical Robots Reconfigure Their Arms Without Moving the Tool Tip
Activity by Decade
2010s1
2020s3
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