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SmartDrive Systems, Inc.

SmartDrive Systems, Inc.'s patent strategy reveals a surprising shift away from its core focus, with its largest category, Time / Attendance / Access Control (60.0% of portfolio), experiencing a significant decline of -71.4% so far in 2026, following a -50.0% drop in 2024. This trend is mirrored across most categories, including Vehicle Control Systems and Traffic Control Systems, indicating a broad de-prioritization of patenting efforts in recent years.

Patent Trend by Technology Area

Yearly patent publications since 2023

Product themes

Product-level themes inferred from filings since 2023, with category chips showing where each theme appears. Select a theme to filter the patents below.

55 US filings (since 2023) · 12 categories · 11 themes

Vehicle Telematics & Diagnostics

Technologies for monitoring vehicle performance, detecting faults, collecting operational data, and providing remote assistance or automated control based on sensor inputs and network connectivity.

Time / Attendance / Access Control
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36since 2023
-36.4%YoY
ADAS Perception & Display

Systems utilizing various sensors (e.g., cameras, radar, sonar) to perceive the vehicle's surrounding environment, detect objects, and process/display relevant information to the driver for enhanced awareness, assistance in maneuvers, or safety.

Vehicle Body Fittings
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22since 2023
-16.7%YoY
Autonomous Fleet & Task Managementfiltered

Systems for coordinating and controlling fleets of autonomous vehicles or machines, including task allocation, route optimization, and monitoring their operational status and progress.

Time / Attendance / Access Control
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19since 2023
-66.7%YoY
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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13since 2023
-20.0%YoY
Driver State Monitoring

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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11since 2023
-83.3%YoY
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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8since 2023
-25.0%YoY
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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6since 2023
-75.0%YoY
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
0.0%YoY
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
0.0%YoY
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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3since 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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2since 2023
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Patents

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Autonomous Fleet & Task Management
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US 12573247 B2GRANTED
G07C5/00

Systems and methods for generating and providing timely vehicle event information

Filed:2023-08-07Pub:2026-03-10
Applicant:SmartDrive Systems, Inc.

This disclosure relates to a system configured to generate and provide timely vehicle event information for a fleet of vehicles including at least a first vehicle. Individual vehicles detect vehicle events and transmit related information to a remote computing server. The remote computing server determines whether the detected vehicles events are relevant to add to a set of vehicle events scenarios. For example, if a particular vehicle event is duplicative of a previous vehicle event, if may not need to be added. The newest vehicles events may be reported at certain intervals, in particular if they are indicative of a trend.

US 20250123625 A1APPLICATION
G05D1/00

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING RISK PROFILES BASED ON PREVIOUSLY DETECTED VEHICLE EVENTS TO QUANTIFY PERFORMANCE OFVEHICLE OPERATORS

Filed:2024-12-23Pub:2025-04-17
Applicant:SmartDrive Systems, Inc.

Systems and methods for using risk profiles for fleet management of a fleet of vehicles are disclosed. Fleet management may include determining the performance levels of particular vehicle operators. The risk profiles characterize values representing likelihoods of occurrences of vehicle events. The values are based on vehicle event information for previously detected vehicle events. Exemplary implementations may: receive, from a particular vehicle, particular vehicle event information for particular vehicle events that have been detected by the particular vehicle; determine one or more metrics that quantify a performance level of the particular vehicle operator, based on the risk profiles; compare the one or more metrics for the particular vehicle operator with aggregated metrics that quantify performance levels of a set of vehicle operators; and store, transfer, and/or present results of the comparison.

US 12222731 B2GRANTED
G05D1/00

Systems and methods for using risk profiles based on previously detected vehicle events to quantify performance of vehicle operators

Filed:2023-01-30Pub:2025-02-11
Applicant:SmartDrive Systems, Inc.

Systems and methods for using risk profiles for fleet management of a fleet of vehicles are disclosed. Fleet management may include determining the performance levels of particular vehicle operators. The risk profiles characterize values representing likelihoods of occurrences of vehicle events. The values are based on vehicle event information for previously detected vehicle events. Exemplary implementations may: receive, from a particular vehicle, particular vehicle event information for particular vehicle events that have been detected by the particular vehicle; determine one or more metrics that quantify a performance level of the particular vehicle operator, based on the risk profiles; compare the one or more metrics for the particular vehicle operator with aggregated metrics that quantify performance levels of a set of vehicle operators; and store, transfer, and/or present results of the comparison.

US 20240353846 A1APPLICATION
G05D1/00

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND USING RISK PROFILES FOR FLEET MANAGEMENT OF A FLEET OF VEHICLES

Filed:2024-06-28Pub:2024-10-24
Applicant:SmartDrive Systems, Inc.

Systems and methods for creating and using risk profiles for management of a fleet of vehicles are disclosed. The risk profiles characterize values representing likelihoods of occurrences of vehicle events, based on previously detected vehicle events. Exemplary implementations may: obtain vehicle event information for vehicle events that have been detected by the fleet of vehicles; aggregate the vehicle event information for multiple ones of the events to create one or more of a first risk profile, a second risk profile and/or a third risk profile; obtain a point of origin for and a target destination of a particular vehicle; determine a set of routes from the point of origin to the target destination; determine individual values representing likelihoods of occurrences of vehicle events along individual routes in the set of routes; select the first route from the set of routes; and provide the selected first route to the particular vehicle.

US 20240346860 A1APPLICATION
G07C5/00

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUERYING FLEET INFORMATION STORED IN A DISTRIBUTED DATA CENTER

Filed:2024-06-27Pub:2024-10-17
Applicant:SmartDrive Systems, Inc.

This disclosure relates to a distributed data center that includes resources carried by a fleet of vehicles. Individual vehicles carry sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicles and/or the surroundings of the vehicles. The system includes a remote computing server configured to obtain executable code from a user, and subsequently transmit the executable code to individual vehicles in the fleet. Individual vehicles locally execute the executable code to produce local results, and subsequently transfer the results to the remote computing server for presentation to the user.

US 12100249 B2GRANTED
G07C5/08

Systems and methods for querying fleet information stored in a distributed data center

Filed:2023-08-09Pub:2024-09-24
Applicant:SmartDrive Systems, Inc.

This disclosure relates to a distributed data center that includes resources carried by a fleet of vehicles. Individual vehicles carry sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicles and/or the surroundings of the vehicles. The system includes a remote computing server configured to obtain executable code from a user, and subsequently transmit the executable code to individual vehicles in the fleet. Individual vehicles locally execute the executable code to produce local results, and subsequently transfer the results to the remote computing server for presentation to the user.

US 12055948 B2GRANTED
G05D1/00

Systems and methods for creating and using risk profiles for fleet management of a fleet of vehicles

Filed:2022-02-07Pub:2024-08-06
Applicant:SmartDrive Systems, Inc.

Systems and methods for creating and using risk profiles for management of a fleet of vehicles are disclosed. The risk profiles characterize values representing likelihoods of occurrences of vehicle events, based on previously detected vehicle events. Exemplary implementations may: obtain vehicle event information for vehicle events that have been detected by the fleet of vehicles; aggregate the vehicle event information for multiple ones of the events to create one or more of a first risk profile, a second risk profile and/or a third risk profile; obtain a point of origin for and a target destination of a particular vehicle; determine a set of routes from the point of origin to the target destination; determine individual values representing likelihoods of occurrences of vehicle events along individual routes in the set of routes; select the first route from the set of routes; and provide the selected first route to the particular vehicle.

US 12002358 B2GRANTED
G08G1/09

Systems and methods for using a distributed data center to create map data

Filed:2023-03-22Pub:2024-06-04
Applicant:SmartDrive Systems, Inc.

This disclosure relates to a distributed data center that includes resources carried by a fleet of vehicles. The system includes sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicles and/or the surroundings of vehicles. The system includes a remote computing server configured to maintain map data and distribute it to the fleet, including local map data to individual vehicles pertaining to their surroundings. Individual vehicles may compare the local map data with the information related to their individual surroundings. Based on such comparisons, individual vehicles may detect discrepancies between the local map data and the information related to their individual surroundings. The remote computing server may modify and/or update the map data based on the detected discrepancies.

US 20240021027 A1APPLICATION
G07C5/00

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND PROVIDING TIMELY VEHICLE EVENT INFORMATION

Filed:2023-08-07Pub:2024-01-18
Applicant:SmartDrive Systems, Inc.

This disclosure relates to a system configured to generate and provide timely vehicle event information for a fleet of vehicles including at least a first vehicle. Individual vehicles detect vehicle events and transmit related information to a remote computing server. The remote computing server determines whether the detected vehicles events are relevant to add to a set of vehicle events scenarios. For example, if a particular vehicle event is duplicative of a previous vehicle event, if may not need to be added. The newest vehicles events may be reported at certain intervals, in particular if they are indicative of a trend.

US 11854313 B2GRANTED
G06F15/16

Systems and methods for using on-board resources of individual vehicles in a fleet of vehicles as a distributed data center

Filed:2023-01-09Pub:2023-12-26
Applicant:SmartDrive Systems, Inc.

This disclosure relates to a distributed data center that includes resources carried by a fleet of vehicles. The system includes sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicles. The system may detect vehicle events based on the information conveyed by the output signals. The system includes a remote computing server configured to present a user interface to a user. Through the user interface, the user may query information from one or more vehicles in the fleet. The distributed query is transmitted to individual vehicles, and results are locally processed in accordance with response constraints and subsequently transmitted back to the remote computing server for presentation to the user.

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