Automated Parking Patent Landscape 2026
Automated Parking Patent Landscape in 2026
Automated parking IP is a mature, moderately concentrated field with a tight cluster of automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers at the top: the five largest filers account for 30% of the hundred largest filers’ combined total. The technology is dominated by vehicle control and traffic-management branches, with LG Electronics leading by family count ahead of Robert Bosch and Nissan Motor.
LG Electronics leads a concentrated OEM-and-supplier field
LG Electronics heads the top tier is composed almost entirely of established automotive OEMs and Tier-1 electronics and mobility suppliers.
The top five filers collectively represent 30% of the hundred largest filers’ combined total, indicating moderate-to-high concentration. The gap between first place (163 families) and tenth place (CloudParc, 52 families) is substantial, but the ranks two through six are closely bunched, suggesting competitive parity among the leading OEMs rather than a single dominant owner.
| # | Applicant | Patent families | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LG Electronics Inc. | 163 | |
| 2 | Robert Bosch GmbH | 129 | |
| 3 | Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. | 128 | |
| 4 | Toyota Motor Corporation | 126 | |
| 5 | Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022 LLC | 123 | |
| 6 | Hyundai Motor Company | 123 | |
| 7 | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | 73 | |
| 8 | Ford Global Technologies LLC | 68 | |
| 9 | Bayerische Motoren Werke AG | 62 | |
| 10 | CloudParc Inc. | 52 |
| # | Applicant | Patent families | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Magna Electronics Inc. | 45 | |
| 12 | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | 44 | |
| 13 | Jaguar Land Rover Ltd. | 41 | |
| 14 | Audi AG | 41 | |
| 15 | Aptiv Technologies AG | 38 | |
| 16 | Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd. | 37 | |
| 17 | Boomerang Systems Inc. | 36 | |
| 18 | Denso Corporation | 35 | |
| 19 | Mitsubishi Electric Corporation | 33 | |
| 20 | Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. | 31 |
The leaders’ positions imply that the core automated-parking IP stack — vehicle motion control, sensor fusion, and traffic-system integration — is well-staked by incumbents. New entrants face meaningful citation thresholds and must differentiate through sub-domain focus, such as AI-driven perception or business-process automation, to find durable claim space.
Filing counts for the most recent 18–24 months are under-reported due to standard patent publication lags; conclusions about recent activity should be treated as provisional. Longer-window growth, applicant concentration, and technology-route coverage are therefore more reliable signals than the latest-year bar alone.
Activity has plateaued near peak; vehicle control dominates the technology mix
The filing trend reveals a field that reached its structural peak around 2019 and has since settled into a plateau, while the technology composition shows an overwhelming concentration in hybrid/joint vehicle control (B60W), with secondary clusters in autonomous-variable control, traffic systems, and vision-based perception.
Annual filing trend
Annual filings peaked at 322 families in 2019, moderated through 2020–2021, then recovered partially in 2022–2023 before easing again. Figures for 2024 and especially 2025–2026 are materially under-counted due to publication lag and should not be read as a real decline; the multi-year window remains at a plateau level consistent with a mature field.
↗ Hover for values · click a bar to ask EurekaTechnology composition
B60W (hybrid/joint vehicle control) is by far the dominant branch, reflecting the centrality of motion-planning and maneuver-execution logic. G05D (control of non-electric variables) and G08G (traffic control systems) form the next tier, followed by G06V (image/video recognition) and B62D (vehicle locomotion). Branches such as G06Q (business/commerce data processing), G06N (AI models), and H04W (wireless networks) are present but comparatively sparse, pointing to room for differentiated work in commerce-layer and connectivity applications.
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Citation-heavy patent families returned by the query. Use this section as citation context, not as a curated list of the most topic-specific patents.
Automated parking system, automated parking vehicl…
An automated parking system includes an automated parking vehicle and an information terminal. The vehicle includes a parking control device and a communication device. The parking control device controls the vehicle to cause the vehicle to search for and park in a vacant parking slot by means of autonomous travel. The communication device transmits… (excerpt from the patent abstract)
| # | Patent | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Automated road transportation system | 495 |
| 2 | Method for Controlling Vehicle Use of Parking Spac… | 302 |
| 3 | Parking assist system with annotated map generation | 274 |
| 4 | Movement control system | 266 |
| 5 | Control of the autonomous mode of bimodal vehicles | 258 |
| 6 | Device and method for self-automated parking lot f… | 253 |
| 7 | Control of the autonomous mode of bimodal vehicles | 244 |
| 8 | Controlling use of a single multi-vehicle parking … | 243 |
Ranked by total forward citations. Citation counts favour older and broadly cited patent families, and broad or adjacent patents may appear when they match the search scope. Treat this section as citation context, not as a curated list of the most topic-specific patents. Some patent titles may be shown in their original, non-English language where an accurate translation could not be guaranteed.
What the competitive structure means for R&D investment
Four structural signals — life-cycle stage, ownership concentration, co-filing alliances, and geographic footprint — together define the risk and opportunity profile for a new entrant or an incumbent seeking to expand its position.
Field is at plateau: core claims are staked, incremental work dominates
The lifecycle evidence classifies automated parking as Mature, with annual filings plateaued near their 2019 peak. The foundational vehicle-control and sensor-fusion claims are densely occupied. R&D investment is most defensible in adjacent sub-domains — AI-driven perception, wireless coordination, or commerce-layer automation — where the claim landscape is thinner. Broad foundational filings are unlikely to yield strong, differentiated positions.
Lifecycle: MatureTop-five filers hold 30% of the leading-100 total; no single dominant owner
The top five filers (LG Electronics, Robert Bosch, Nissan, Toyota, Strong Force / Hyundai tied) share 30% of the hundred largest filers’ combined output, indicating moderate concentration rather than a monopoly. The narrow gap among ranks two through six means that a sustained filing campaign by a well-resourced challenger could shift rank positions. Smaller players such as CloudParc (52 families) and Magna Electronics (45 families) have carved credible niches without matching OEM-scale breadth.
Concentration: ModerateHyundai–Kia alliance dominates co-filing; OEM–supplier pairs are secondary
The most active co-filing pair by a wide margin is Hyundai Motor and Kia (110 joint families), reflecting the Hyundai Motor Group’s integrated R&D structure. The Nissan–Renault alliance contributes 15 co-filed families, and Toyota–Denso adds 7. Hyundai also co-files with Sejong University (2 families each with Kia and Hyundai), signaling selective academic engagement. Robert Bosch’s co-filings link its German parent with its Indian engineering and global software subsidiaries, indicating an internal distributed R&D model rather than external partnership activity.
Collaboration: Alliance-ledUS is the primary protection market; Europe and China are secondary
The United States leads jurisdiction coverage by a large margin. Europe (EPO) is the second-ranked jurisdiction, followed by China, WIPO (PCT), and Germany. India ranks notably high at sixth, suggesting that several major filers treat India as a strategic secondary market. Japan and South Korea — home jurisdictions for several leading applicants — rank seventh and eighth, indicating that many OEMs file home-country applications separately from PCT routes. Coverage in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East remains sparse.
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| Applicant | Collaborator | Co-filings |
|---|---|---|
| Hyundai Motor Company | Kia Corporation | 110 |
| Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. | Renault SA | 15 |
| Hyundai Motor Company | Kia Corporation | 9 |
| Toyota Motor Corporation | Denso Corporation | 7 |
| Kia Corporation | Kia Corporation | 5 |
| Toyota Motor Corporation | Advics Co., Ltd. | 2 |
| Hyundai Motor Company | Sejong University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation | 2 |
| Kia Corporation | Sejong University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation | 2 |
| Robert Bosch GmbH | Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Ltd. | 1 |
| Robert Bosch GmbH | Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd. | 1 |
Co-filing pairs, ranked by the number of jointly-filed patent families.
LG Electronics and Toyota Motor: contrasting trajectories at the top
The two most instructive cases in the ranking are LG Electronics — the volume leader whose recent filing rate has dropped sharply — and Toyota Motor, whose recent activity has surged, alongside the patent-aggregator Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022 LLC, a new entrant that has rapidly accumulated a large position.
LG Electronics
LG Electronics leads the corpus with 163 patent families, concentrated in B60W vehicle control (motion planning and failure management sub-classes) and G05D autonomous-variable control. Despite holding the top position, its recent filing rate has declined sharply (down 99% versus the prior three-year window), suggesting that LG’s strategic focus on automated parking IP has shifted or consolidated. Its existing portfolio, however, remains the broadest single-owner block in the corpus.
families: 163Toyota Motor
Toyota Motor ranks fourth overall with 126 patent families, primarily in B60W vehicle control (maneuver execution and fault handling) and G08G traffic-control systems. Critically, Toyota’s recent three-year filing rate has grown to 3.3× its prior three-year baseline — the strongest organic momentum among the leading OEMs. This trajectory indicates an active strategic push to deepen its automated parking IP position while peers such as LG Electronics, Hyundai Motor, and Honda are pulling back.
families: 126| Applicant | Recent (3 yrs) | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| LG Electronics Inc. | 2 | ▼ -99% |
| Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. | 7 | ▼ -42% |
| Robert Bosch GmbH | 17 | ▼ -19% |
| Toyota Motor Corporation | 86 | ▲ 3.3× vs prior 3-yr |
| Hyundai Motor Company | 19 | ▼ -72% |
| Kia Corporation | 18 | ▼ -72% |
| Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022 LLC | 84 | ▲ new entrant |
| Honda Motor Co., Ltd. | 8 | ▼ -85% |
Under-served adjacent branches worth monitoring
Several IPC classes appear at lower shares relative to the dominant B60W cluster, representing areas where coverage is comparatively sparse. Two branches stand out for their plausible technical relevance and realistic entry paths.
G06Q · Business, commerce & admin data processing
G06Q covers business-process and data-processing methods, including payment, reservation, and fleet-management applications directly relevant to automated parking monetization and operations. With a share of 3% relative to the dominant branch, this area is comparatively sparse. The entry path is realistic for software-centric players and mobility-service operators who can anchor claims in parking-specific transaction or fleet-scheduling workflows rather than vehicle control logic — a differentiated angle from the OEM-dominated core.
Search this in Eureka →G06N · Computing based on AI models
G06N covers neural-network and machine-learning computing models. Despite vision-based perception (G06V) and traffic systems (G08G) being well-represented, the foundational AI-model branch itself accounts for a comparatively small share of the corpus. Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022 LLC’s recent large-scale entry is notably concentrated here (G06N 3 among its top three sub-classes), signaling that this branch is attracting aggregator attention. Research groups and AI-native startups with provable performance advantages in parking-scenario inference or edge-deployment models have a plausible technical and claim-differentiation path before the branch densifies further.
Search this in Eureka →How leading applicants differ by technology route
Strength of each leader across the main technology routes.
| Player | B60W 30 · Hybrid/joint vehicle control | G05D 1 · Control of non-electric variables | G08G 1 · Traffic control systems | B60W 50 · Hybrid/joint vehicle control | B60W 40 · Hybrid/joint vehicle control |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LG Electronics Inc. | Strong · 43 | Strong · 55 | Strong · 32 | Strong · 55 | Strong · 55 |
| Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. | Strong · 126 | Absent | Strong · 75 | Emerging · 21 | Emerging · 12 |
| Hyundai Motor Company | Strong · 81 | Strong · 48 | Strong · 56 | Moderate · 23 | Emerging · 14 |
| Robert Bosch GmbH | Strong · 76 | Strong · 41 | Strong · 44 | Moderate · 21 | Moderate · 20 |
| Toyota Motor Corporation | Strong · 90 | Moderate · 23 | Moderate · 31 | Moderate · 37 | Emerging · 17 |
| Kia Corporation | Strong · 74 | Strong · 44 | Strong · 51 | Moderate · 23 | Absent |
| Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022 LLC | Absent | Strong · 79 | Absent | Absent | Strong · 80 |
Frequently asked questions
The evidence corpus covers 2,097 patent families globally. This is the baseline against which applicant rankings, technology composition, and jurisdiction distributions are assessed.
LG Electronics leads with 163 patent families, ahead of Robert Bosch (129), Nissan Motor (128), Toyota Motor (126), and a tied group of Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022 LLC and Hyundai Motor (123 each).
The field is classified as Mature, with annual filings plateaued near their 2019 peak of 322 families. The most recent filing years (2024–2026) appear lower due to publication lag and should not be interpreted as a real decline. The multi-year window shows no meaningful growth.
B60W (hybrid/joint vehicle control) is by far the largest branch, followed by G05D (control of non-electric variables), G08G (traffic control systems), G06V (image/video recognition), and B62D (vehicles and legged-robot locomotion). Business-process (G06Q) and AI-model (G06N) branches are present but comparatively sparse.
The United States is the primary protection market by a large margin, followed by Europe (EPO), China, WIPO (PCT), Germany, and India. Japan and South Korea rank seventh and eighth. Coverage in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East is thin.
Toyota Motor shows the strongest organic momentum among established OEMs, with a recent three-year filing rate 3.3× its prior three-year baseline. Strong Force TP Portfolio 2022 LLC is classified as a new entrant with a large recent position concentrated in navigation, vision, and AI-model sub-classes. Most other leading OEMs, including LG Electronics (down 99%), Hyundai Motor (down 72%), and Honda (down 85%), show declining recent rates.
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