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Pierre-Yves Droz

Google: 25 patents #2 of 4,199Top 1%
Los Altos, CA: #6 of 775 inventorsTop 1%
California: #195 of 66,859 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (2021): #1,149 of 548,734Top 1%
25 Patents 2021

Issued Patents 2021

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11194340 Light steering device with an array of oscillating reflective slats Drew Ulrich, Samuel William Lenius 2021-12-07
11180037 Contactless electrical coupling for a rotatable LIDAR device Samuel William Lenius 2021-11-23
11152675 Communication system for LIDAR sensors used in a vehicle comprising a rotary joint with a bearing waveguide for coupling signals with communication chips Zhe Li, Jamal Izadian, Min Wang, Samuel William Lenius, Paul Karplus +1 more 2021-10-19
11145778 Monolithic silicon photomultiplier array Caner Onal, Nirav Dharia 2021-10-12
11137485 Window occlusion imager near focal plane Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Matthew E. Last, Bryce Remesch 2021-10-05
11131781 Programmable SiPM arrays Simon Verghese, Caner Onal 2021-09-28
11126192 Wide-view LIDAR with areas of special attention Bradley Templeton, Jiajun Zhu 2021-09-21
11054505 Long range steerable LIDAR system Gaetan Pennecot, Anthony Levandowski, Drew Ulrich, Zach Morriss, Luke Wachter +5 more 2021-07-06
11041753 Light detection using an aperture David Hutchison 2021-06-22
11042164 Light steering device with an array of oscillating reflective slats Drew Ulrich, Samuel William Lenius 2021-06-22
11042004 System and method for alignment of optical beams Ralph Hamilton Shepard 2021-06-22
11029396 Multiplexed multichannel photodetector Samuel William Lenius 2021-06-08
11016180 Combination photodetector arrays for extended dynamic range Caner Onal, Blaise Gassend 2021-05-25
10989886 Methods for optical system manufacturing David Schleuning 2021-04-27
10976437 Vehicle with multiple light detection and ranging devices (LIDARS) Gaetan Pennecot, Zachary Morriss, Samuel William Lenius, Dorel Ionut Iordache, Daniel Gruver +7 more 2021-04-13
10971787 Devices and methods for a dielectric rotary joint Adam Brown, Daniel L. Rosenband, Samuel William Lenius 2021-04-06
10971645 Controlling detection time in photodetectors Caner Onal, Simon Verghese 2021-04-06
10967856 Detection of pedestrian using radio devices 2021-04-06
10962883 Method for manufacturing light guide elements Bernard Fidric, David Hutchison 2021-03-30
10951864 Rotating LIDAR with co-aligned imager Simon Verghese, Brendan Hermalyn 2021-03-16
10948573 Mirror assembly Blaise Gassend, Benjamin Ingram 2021-03-16
10942272 Power modulation for a rotary light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device Bernard Fidric 2021-03-09
10942244 Systems and methods for LIDARs with adjustable resolution and failsafe operation 2021-03-09
10890650 LIDAR with co-aligned transmit and receive paths David Hutchison, Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Nathaniel Golshan 2021-01-12
10884115 Tailoring sensor emission power to map, vehicle state, and environment Benjamin Ingram, Edward Daniel McCloskey, Timothy Campbell 2021-01-05