IP Ownership · Automotive & Electric Vehicles
Who owns the electric vehicle patents?
Electric drivetrains, regenerative braking, battery management, and autonomous driving system patents.
Patents indexed
97
Total citations
3,968
Top-3 hold
60% of citations
Assignees ranked
10
Ranked by total forward citations — 10 companies
Making Strong, Porous PTFE: The Gore-Tex Process
US 3953566 · 1,364 citations
34%
of citations
How a Modern Camera Sensor Captures Light and Converts It to Data
US 5471515 · 620 citations
16%
of citations
Weapon That Shoots Wires to Deliver Electric Shocks
US 3803463 · 152 citations
10%
of citations
How Self-Balancing Vehicles Warn Users Before They Tip Over
US 6302230 · 172 citations
4%
of citations
The Molecular Structure of Kevlar High-Strength Fiber
US 3819587 · 141 citations
4%
of citations
Boosting Fuel Cell Power for Vehicles Using Oxygen Injection
US 5346778 · 90 citations
2%
of citations
How Autonomous Cars Process Sensor Data for Driving
US 20220161815 · 72 citations
2%
of citations
How Eugene Houdry Invented the Modern Catalytic Converter
US 2742437 · 55 citations
1%
of citations
Boosting Solid-State Batteries with a Capacitor Interlayer
US 11145922 · 14 citations
1%
of citations
Rankings by total forward citations within PatentBrief's enriched patent corpus for the Automotive & Electric Vehicles technology domain. Forward citations are the industry standard proxy for patent influence and commercial importance. Coverage reflects patents currently indexed; the full USPTO corpus is larger.