Elon Musk Owns How Many Patents?

How many patents does Elon Musk own?

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Elon Musk has filed well over a dozen patents for his inventions. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), states that Elon Musk has filed for a total of 23 patents all falling under 8 unique patent families including those covering vehicle design, autonomous vehicles, and data exchanges.

One of Elon Musk's well-known patents filed is for the autonomous and user-controlled vehicle summoned to a target. US-20230176593-A1 and US-11567514-B2 This patent describes a processor coupled with memory that configures to receive an identification of geographical location associated with a specified target by the user of a remote from the vehicle itself.

A machine model is utilized to generate a representation of a portion of an environment surrounding the vehicle using sensor data from one of the many sensors of the vehicle. A portion of a path to a target location corresponding to receive geographical location is caculated using the generated representations of the portion of the environment surrounding the vehicle. One command is provided to automatically navigate the vehicle based on determined paths and updated sensor data from a portion of the many sensors of the vehicle.

Other patent numbers under Elon Musk's name are:

US-20200257317-A1

US-D724031-S

US-8579635-B2

US-D683268-S

US-20130078839-A1

US-D678154-S

US-20020018236-A1

US-6185194-B1

US-6148260-A

US-6108650-A

US-5944769-A