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Christopher Paul Urmson — 10 Patents in 2016

Google: 10 patents #79 of 5,263Top 2%
Mountain View, CA: #34 of 2,129 inventorsTop 2%
California: #1,049 of 57,791 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (2016): #7,133 of 481,213Top 2%
10 Patents 2016

Issued Patents 2016

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9519287 User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system Andrew Timothy Szybalski, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Sebastian Thrun, Philip Nemec 2016-12-13 $25,735,000
9499172 Detecting road weather conditions Michael Steven Montemerlo, Jiajun Zhu 2016-11-22 $14,269,000
9476970 Camera based localization Nathaniel Fairfield, Michael Steven Montemerlo 2016-10-25 $11,956,000
9400183 Method and apparatus to transition between levels using warp zones Michael Steven Montemerlo, Andrew Hughes Chatham, Daniel Egnor 2016-07-26 $23,166,000
9383749 Transitioning a mixed-mode vehicle to autonomous mode Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Nathaniel Fairfield, Andy Szybalski, Philip Nemec 2016-07-05 $18,194,000
9367065 Modifying behavior of autonomous vehicles based on sensor blind spots and limitations Dmitri A. Dolgov 2016-06-14 $20,941,000
9342074 Systems and methods for transitioning control of an autonomous vehicle to a driver Dmitri A. Dolgov, Andrew Schultz, Daniel Egnor 2016-05-17 $20,909,000
9315178 Model checking for autonomous vehicles David I. Ferguson, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2016-04-19 $18,441,000
9268332 Zone driving Michael Steven Montemerlo, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2016-02-23 $16,485,000
9261379 Intersection completer Andrew Hughes Chatham 2016-02-16 $15,808,000