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Nathaniel Fairfield

Google: 18 patents #6 of 4,878Top 1%
Mountain View, CA: #7 of 2,712 inventorsTop 1%
California: #450 of 67,585 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (2023): #2,433 of 537,848Top 1%
18 Patents 2023

Issued Patents 2023

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11853067 Arranging passenger pickups for autonomous vehicles Joshua Seth Herbach, Christopher Kennedy Ludwick, Matthew Paul McNaughton, Renaud-Roland Hubert, Jennifer Arden +1 more 2023-12-26
11851082 Kinematic model for autonomous truck routing Benjamin Pitzer, Austin Abrams, Christopher Bowen 2023-12-26
11815903 Assisted perception for autonomous vehicles David I. Ferguson, Wan-Yen Lo 2023-11-14
11780431 Testing predictions for autonomous vehicles Vadim Furman 2023-10-10
11762386 Modifying the behavior of an autonomous vehicle using context based parameter switching Jiajun Zhu, Christopher Paul Urmson, David I. Ferguson, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2023-09-19
11747809 System and method for evaluating the perception system of an autonomous vehicle Jiajun Zhu, Christopher Paul Urmson, Dirk Haehnel, Russell Smith 2023-09-05
11747811 Attempting to pull over for autonomous vehicles Brian Douglas Cullinane, David Tse-Zhou Lu, Anne Kristiina Aula, Jennifer Arden, Joshua Seth Herbach +2 more 2023-09-05
11745742 Planning stopping locations for autonomous vehicles Jared Stephen Russell, Dmitri A. Dolgov, Laura Estelle Lindzey, Christopher Paul Urmson 2023-09-05
11731629 Robust method for detecting traffic signals and their associated states David I. Ferguson, Anthony Levandowski 2023-08-22
11727523 Autonomous vehicle services Christopher Paul Urmson, Peter Colijn, Dmitri A. Dolgov, Salil Pandit, Nirmal Patel +2 more 2023-08-15
11720101 Systems and methods for vehicles with limited destination ability Dmitri A. Dolgov, Sebastian Thrun, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Christopher Paul Urmson, Anthony Levandowski 2023-08-08
11698643 Methods and systems for keeping remote assistance operators alert Joshua Seth Herbach 2023-07-11
11675357 Independently actuated wheel sets for large autonomous self-driving vehicles Nolan Shenai, Benjamin Pitzer 2023-06-13
11657318 Assessing ride quality for autonomous vehicles Ioan-Alexandru Sucan, Fang Da, Poonam Suryanarayan, Yutaka Leon Suematsu, Omer Baror +2 more 2023-05-23
11650584 Remote assistance for autonomous vehicles in predetermined situations Joshua Herbach, Vadim Furman 2023-05-16
11651691 Reporting road event data and sharing with other vehicles Joshua Seth Herbach, Andrew Hughes Chatham, Michael Steven Montemerlo 2023-05-16
11645189 Software validation for autonomous vehicles Franklin Morley, Omer Baror, Miner Crary 2023-05-09
11550331 Detecting street parked vehicles David Harrison Silver, Jur Van Den Berg 2023-01-10