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Nathaniel Fairfield — 14 Patents in 2021

Google: 13 patents #12 of 4,199Top 1%
Mountain View, CA: #15 of 2,642 inventorsTop 1%
California: #624 of 66,859 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (2021): #4,016 of 548,734Top 1%
14 Patents 2021

Issued Patents 2021

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11210200 Software validation for autonomous vehicles Franklin Morley, Omer Baror, Miner Crary 2021-12-28 $102,088,000
11205240 Autonomous vehicle services Christopher Paul Urmson, Peter Colijn, Dmitri A. Dolgov, Salil Pandit, Nirmal Patel +2 more 2021-12-21 $200,100,000
11175666 Arranging passenger pickups for autonomous vehicles Joshua Seth Herbach, Christopher Kennedy Ludwick, Matthew Paul McNaughton, Renaud-Roland Hubert, Jennifer Arden +1 more 2021-11-16 $125,303,000
11106893 System and method for evaluating the perception system of an autonomous vehicle Jiajun Zhu, Christopher Paul Urmson, Dirk Haehnel, Russell Smith 2021-08-31 $105,739,000
11034351 Planning stopping locations for autonomous vehicles Jared Stephen Russell, Dmitri A. Dolgov, Laura Estelle Lindzey, Christopher Paul Urmson 2021-06-15 $75,825,000
11036227 Modifying the behavior of an autonomous vehicle using context based parameter switching Jiajun Zhu, Christopher Paul Urmson, David I. Ferguson, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2021-06-15 $75,825,000
11029687 Trajectory assistance for autonomous vehicles Joshua Seth Herbach 2021-06-08 $78,001,000
11016482 Remote assistance for autonomous vehicles in predetermined situations Joshua Seth Herbach, Vadim Furman 2021-05-25 $74,324,000
11010998 Systems and methods for vehicles with limited destination ability Dmitri A. Dolgov, Sebastian Thrun, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Christopher Paul Urmson, Anthony Levandowski 2021-05-18 $91,712,000
11009875 Preparing autonomous vehicles for turns Benjamin Charrow 2021-05-18
10962981 Assisted perception for autonomous vehicles David I. Ferguson, Wan-Yen Lo 2021-03-30 $87,360,000
10916142 Reporting road event data and sharing with other vehicles Joshua Seth Herbach, Andrew Hughes Chatham, Michael Steven Montemerlo 2021-02-09 $107,181,000
10906548 Robust method for detecting traffic signals and their associated states David I. Ferguson, Anthony Levandowski 2021-02-02 $80,507,000
10899345 Predicting trajectories of objects based on contextual information David I. Ferguson, David Harrison Silver, Stephane Ross, Ioan-Alexandru Sucan 2021-01-26 $90,214,000