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David I. Ferguson

Google: 14 patents #9 of 4,199Top 1%
NUNuro: 6 patents #1 of 19Top 6%
San Francisco, CA: #32 of 7,035 inventorsTop 1%
California: #299 of 66,859 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (2021): #1,955 of 548,734Top 1%
20 Patents 2021

Issued Patents 2021

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11210726 System and mechanism for upselling products on autonomous vehicles Jiajun Zhu, Pichayut Jirapinyo, Nan Ransohoff 2021-12-28
11200613 Systems and methods for a subscription service via autonomous vehicles Jiajun Zhu, Cosimo Leipold, Pichayut Jirapinyo, Nan Ransohoff 2021-12-14
11198430 Automated system and method for modeling the behavior of vehicles and other agents Jiajun Zhu, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2021-12-14
11176591 Systems and methods for remote operation of robot vehicles Jiajun Zhu, Yi Shen, Calvin Giroud, Qunyan Pu 2021-11-16
11151632 Systems and methods for visual search and autonomous delivery Jiajun Zhu, Nan Ransohoff 2021-10-19
11126868 Detecting and responding to parking behaviors in autonomous vehicles David Harrison Silver 2021-09-21
11079768 Use of a reference image to detect a road obstacle Jiajun Zhu 2021-08-03
11068726 Static obstacle detection David Harrison Silver, Jonathan Baldwin Dowdall 2021-07-20
11036227 Modifying the behavior of an autonomous vehicle using context based parameter switching Jiajun Zhu, Christopher Paul Urmson, Nathaniel Fairfield, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2021-06-15
11014557 Modifying speed of an autonomous vehicle based on traffic conditions Dmitri A. Dolgov 2021-05-25
11011061 Determining changes in a driving environment based on vehicle behavior 2021-05-18
11009868 Fleet of autonomous vehicles with lane positioning and platooning behaviors Jiajun Zhu, Russell Smith 2021-05-18
11008008 Modifying a vehicle state based on the presence of a special-purpose vehicle 2021-05-18
10962981 Assisted perception for autonomous vehicles Wan-Yen Lo, Nathaniel Fairfield 2021-03-30
10955846 Stop sign detection and response David Harrison Silver, Abhijit Ogale, Wan-Yen Lo 2021-03-23
10935979 Behavior and intent estimations of road users for autonomous vehicles Stephane Ross 2021-03-02
10909396 Use of relationship between activities of different traffic signals in a network to improve traffic signal state estimation Bradley Templeton 2021-02-02
10906548 Robust method for detecting traffic signals and their associated states Nathaniel Fairfield, Anthony Levandowski 2021-02-02
10899345 Predicting trajectories of objects based on contextual information David Harrison Silver, Stephane Ross, Nathaniel Fairfield, Ioan-Alexandru Sucan 2021-01-26
10882488 Hardware and software mechanisms on autonomous vehicle for pedestrian safety Jiajun Zhu, Nick Vines, Russell Smith 2021-01-05