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Benjamin Swilling — 28 Patents

BDBoston Dynamics: 25 patents #6 of 100Top 6%
Google: 1 patents #14,887 of 22,993Top 65%
Waltham, MA: #58 of 1,656 inventorsTop 4%
Massachusetts: #3,526 of 88,656 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Benjamin Swilling has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at Boston Dynamics. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in November 2025. Benjamin Swilling ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Benjamin Swilling in Waltham, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2017 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2018.peak 72017: 1 patents20172018: 7 patents20182019: 4 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 4 patents20222023: 3 patents20232024: 4 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12468300 Detecting negative obstacles Jeffrey N. Yu, Eric Whitman 2025-11-11
12440970 Arm and body coordination Stephen Berard, Andrew James Barry, Alfred Anthony Rizzi 2025-10-14
12427662 Determination of robotic step path 2025-09-30
12151380 Robotically negotiating stairs Eric Whitman, Gina Christine Fay 2024-11-26
12097609 Continuous slip recovery Stephen Berard, Alex Khripin 2024-09-24
12054208 Achieving a target gait behavior in a legged robot Eric Whitman, Stephen Berard, Alfred Anthony Rizzi, Alex Khripin, Gina Christine Fay 2024-08-06
11931898 Arm and body coordination Stephen Berard, Andrew James Barry, Alfred Anthony Rizzi 2024-03-19
11660752 Perception and fitting for a stair tracker Eric Whitman, Gene Brown Merewether, Gina Christine Fay 2023-05-30
11597081 Slip handling and ground friction estimation for robots Alexander Samuel Graber-Tilton 2023-03-07
11548151 Robotically negotiating stairs Eric Whitman, Gina Christine Fay 2023-01-10
11413750 Determination of robotic step path 2022-08-16
11319005 Achieving a target gait behavior in a legged robot Eric Whitman, Stephen Berard, Alfred Anthony Rizzi, Alex Khripin, Gina Christine Fay 2022-05-03
11298826 Modular robot system Zachary John Jackowski, John Aaron Saunders 2022-04-12
11247344 Continuous slip recovery Stephen Berard, Alex Khripin 2022-02-15
11123869 Robotically negotiating stairs Eric Whitman, Gina Christine Fay 2021-09-21
10688667 Continuous slip recovery Stephen Berard, Alex Khripin 2020-06-23
10456916 Determination of robotic step path 2019-10-29
10399621 Achieving a target gait behavior in a legged robot Eric Whitman, Stephen Berard, Alfred Anthony Rizzi, Alex Khripin, Gina Christine Fay 2019-09-03
10266220 Achieving a target gait behavior in a legged robot Eric Whitman, Stephen Berard, Alfred Anthony Rizzi, Alex Khripin, Gina Christine Fay 2019-04-23
10239208 Determination of robotic step path 2019-03-26
10144465 Achieving a target gait behavior in a legged robot Eric Whitman, Stephen Berard, Alfred Anthony Rizzi, Alex Khripin, Gina Christine Fay 2018-12-04
10105845 Modular robot system Zachary John Jackowski, John Aaron Saunders 2018-10-23
10081104 Determination of robotic step path 2018-09-25
10017218 Achieving a target gait behavior in a legged robot Eric Whitman, Stephen Berard, Alfred Anthony Rizzi, Alex Khripin, Gina Christine Fay 2018-07-10
9987745 Execution of robotic tasks Stephen Berard, Matthew Malchano 2018-06-05