Russian and foreign car manufacturers protect their intellectual property well. This concerns not only trademarks, inventions, utility models or industrial designs, but even, for example, computer programs.
We will tell you what software is in the portfolio of the largest national and foreign companies of this type.
AvtoVAZ
The corporation registered several computer programs at once with Rospatent:
- ” Lada Code (LADA CodeX) ” - is necessary for diagnostics of electronic control units of cars created by the company;
- ” Lada Electronic Engineering Tool (LEET) ” - is needed to perform engineering work (diagnostics of electronics and electrics, configuration of control units and creation of various service files that are necessary for the functionality of diagnostic procedures);
- “Program for ensuring the operation of a dynamic test stand for a fuel rail with injectors in assembly” - the software is necessary for the formation and processing of control pulses of the fuel injectors of the power unit;
- “Lada Garantiya Information System” - the program is needed to transfer warranty reports.
KamAZ
The company has dozens of different types of programs. Let’s list some of them:
- “Smart production. Manager’s monitor-01” - the software is a module of the information and analytical system, aimed at collecting, processing, storing and analyzing information;
- “Module for determining special points on an image” - a program necessary for creating a driverless car system (it “allows you to find special points on a stereo image that help to build a three-dimensional image from two stereo images”);
- “Quality control program for fastening the crankshaft to the cylinder block” is software for controlling the electrical control cabinet during the operation of installing and fastening the crankshaft to the cylinder block;
- “Program for preparing automatic placement of position designations on an assembly drawing ”
- “Automatic drawing of screw head locations” - this system allows you to automatically generate basic dimensions and draw the product on the drawing field;
- “Manual control of an autonomous heavy platform” is a program for controlling the specified object using a joystick: the left handle of the latter changes the position of the steering wheel, the left bumper changes the force of pressing the brake, the right one - the gas, the X and Y buttons switch the gearbox modes to Drive and Reverse;
- “Mobile application “Operating manual” (KAMAZ-Guide)” . This software is a mobile application that is installed in the memory of devices running on Android. The manufacturer specifies that the program is needed for prompt use of the service book and electronic operating manual;
- ” Control of Technological Discipline (ControlTD) ” - the program is needed for planning, entering data and generating reports on inspections of existing technological processes for manufacturing products at factories;
- “Transfer selected objects from DOS to WINDOWS” ; No comments here.
- “Calculation of the efficiency of the vehicle braking system” — the software uses the method of calculating the efficiency of braking, taking into account the reduction of pressure in the braking system under the conditions of achieving the maximum possible coefficient of use of the adhesion weight. The development was carried out on the basis of the company’s truck in a single version, as well as in a road train.
Thus, as we see, the computer programs registered by KAMAZ can be conditionally divided into several groups:
- The first concerns the direct interaction between the user (driver) and the vehicle;
- The second is related to the creation of a particular car in production;
- The third is control software (necessary for organizing work - from planning to the final result).
Do foreign auto companies register their computer programs with Rospatent?
Yes. For example, Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus LLC (in 2024, the legal entity changed its name, becoming Avtozavod AGR LLC ) has the following intellectual property in its portfolio: “Program for forming a sequence of car production for a welding shop” ; “Local control system for implementing engineering changes in the design of mass-produced cars” ; Hyundai Motor CIS LLC owns the rights to the Hyundai Mobility software (an application for online subscription to vehicles); Business Mobility Office (the program, as the developers explain, contains “all the functionality for operational processes of the vehicle fleet, a monitoring system, has integrations with KYC and scoring procedures, provides reports and usage statistics for each connected service”); Genesis Mobility and many others.
What other opportunities does the exclusively Russian auto industry have in relation to its software?
Corporations often include their developments in the Register of Domestic Software.
For example, the previously mentioned KAMAZ has in this list “Software for online booking of passenger trips from the nearest stops using a mobile application and management of passenger transportation logistics on demand” (copyright holder: Digital Platform KAMAZ LLC), “Guide KAMAZ 2.0” (copyright holder: IC KAMAZ LLC and PJSC KAMAZ) and “Digital Platform “Kamotive” (copyright holder: IC KAMAZ LLC).