Company patents

Argo AI, LLC

Argo AI, LLC's patent strategy shows a surprising and dramatic shift, with nearly all categories experiencing significant declines in 2024 and a complete cessation of patent grants in 2025. For instance, its core focus, Vehicle Control Systems, which accounts for 52.0% of its portfolio, saw a -52.6% decline in 2024 and a -100.0% decline in 2025, indicating a complete halt in new patenting activity across its portfolio, including previously emerging areas like Business Methods & Fintech which had seen a +133.3% growth in 2024 before stopping.

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Yearly patent publications since 2023

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221 US filings (since 2023) · 12 categories · 23 themes

Autonomous Path Planning

Algorithms and systems for generating, optimizing, and executing trajectories for autonomous vehicles or robots to move through an environment, often involving obstacle avoidance, route validation, and goal reaching.

Navigation & GeodesyIndustrial & Autonomous ControlImage ProcessingTraffic Control Systems
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77since 2023
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Cooperative Driving & Maneuver Planning

Algorithms and systems for planning and executing complex vehicle maneuvers, often involving cooperation with other vehicles or infrastructure, to optimize traffic flow, avoid collisions, or navigate challenging scenarios. This includes lane changes, cut-ins, and traffic congestion.

Vehicle Control Systems
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43since 2023
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VRU Protection & Localization

Systems and methods for enhancing the safety of vulnerable road users (pedestrians, cyclists) by improving their detection, prediction, and precise localization relative to the vehicle, often leveraging communication technologies and specialized markers.

Vehicle Control Systems
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31since 2023
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Sensor-based Environment Perception

Techniques and hardware for autonomous systems to gather and interpret data about their surroundings, including obstacle detection, object recognition, and depth estimation, to inform control decisions.

Computer VisionIndustrial & Autonomous Control
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28since 2023
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Autonomous System Redundancy & Validation

Techniques and architectures for ensuring the reliability, fault tolerance, and performance validation of autonomous driving systems, including redundant computing platforms and perception system monitoring.

Vehicle Control Systems
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26since 2023
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Lane-Level Mapping & Localization

Techniques for generating, updating, and utilizing highly detailed digital maps that include lane-specific information, and for precisely determining a vehicle's position within these lanes, often using sensor data.

Navigation & Geodesy
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23since 2023
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Vision-Based Object & Pose Estimation

Methods and apparatus for detecting objects and determining their three-dimensional position and orientation (pose) using imagery or point cloud data, often for navigation, surveying, or environmental understanding.

Computer VisionNavigation & Geodesy
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16since 2023
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Multi-modal Sensor Fusion

Techniques for combining data from disparate sensor types (e.g., cameras, radar, mobile device signals) to achieve a more robust and comprehensive understanding of an environment or subject, often leveraging machine learning for interpretation and correlation.

Radar / Sonar / LidarComputer Vision
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13since 2023
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Advanced Radar/Lidar Hardware

Innovations in the physical components and architectures of radar, lidar, and sonar systems, including antenna design, RF signal generation, beam steering mechanisms, and optical elements for improved performance.

Radar / Sonar / Lidar
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13since 2023
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Multi-Agent System Coordination

Methods and systems for managing the interaction, communication, and collaborative tasks among multiple autonomous entities, or between autonomous entities and a central control system or users.

Industrial & Autonomous Control
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10since 2023
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Smart Parking Systems

Integrated systems for managing parking facilities, guiding vehicles to available spots, and providing notifications, often leveraging sensors, communication, and remote control.

Vehicle Control SystemsTraffic Control Systems
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7since 2023
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Video Enhancement & Object Tracking

Methods and systems for improving the quality of video streams, generating intermediate frames, or continuously locating and following objects within a sequence of images, even under occlusion.

Image Processing
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6since 2023
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Smart City & Infrastructure Management

Systems and methods that leverage location data, IoT sensors, and predictive analytics to optimize urban services such as traffic flow, emergency response, parking, and waste collection.

Navigation & Geodesy
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5since 2023
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Road Hazard & Weather Warning

Technologies for detecting adverse weather conditions or road hazards and providing timely alerts and adaptive control strategies to vehicles and drivers to enhance safety.

Traffic Control Systems
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5since 2023
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Driver State Monitoringfiltered

Systems that monitor a vehicle operator's physiological state, attentiveness, or behavior using in-cabin sensors and machine learning to enhance safety or personalize vehicle functions.

Vehicle Control Systems
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4since 2023
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Automated Visual Inspection

Systems that employ imaging and image processing to automatically detect defects, verify states, or ensure quality control in manufactured goods, printed materials, or industrial processes.

Data Recognition (Barcodes, OCR)
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4since 2023
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Adaptive Traffic Signal Control

Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting traffic signal timings and phases at intersections based on real-time traffic conditions, priority vehicles, and predictive analytics to optimize flow and reduce congestion.

Traffic Control Systems
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4since 2023
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Obstacle & Anomaly Detection

Techniques used by sensing systems to identify the presence, location, and characteristics of objects or unusual conditions in an environment, including methods to suppress false positives or 'ghost' detections.

Radar / Sonar / Lidar
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3since 2023
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Precise Positioning & Localization

Methods and systems for accurately determining the absolute or relative position of an object or device, often integrating satellite navigation (GNSS), inertial measurement units (IMU), and local ranging or wireless communication technologies.

Radar / Sonar / Lidar
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2since 2023
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Specialized Data Integration

Methods and systems for integrating, transforming, and managing complex or domain-specific data from disparate sources into a unified structure, often for specific applications like social networks, genomics, or business forms.

Databases & Information Retrieval
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2since 2023
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3D Reconstruction & Modeling

Processes for creating or manipulating three-dimensional digital representations of objects or environments, including mesh generation, surface fitting, and depth estimation from multiple views.

Image Processing
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1since 2023
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Connected Vehicle Communication (V2X)

Systems enabling wireless communication between vehicles (V2V), vehicles and infrastructure (V2I), or vehicles and other entities (V2X) to share information for traffic management, safety, and navigation.

Traffic Control Systems
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1since 2023
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Geospatial Intelligence

Technologies that process, analyze, and leverage geographic information system (GIS) data, location data, and spatial analytics for applications such as monitoring, navigation, and environmental assessment.

Databases & Information Retrieval
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1since 2023
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