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Eric Whitman — 34 Patents

BDBoston Dynamics: 31 patents #5 of 100Top 5%
Google: 2 patents #10,599 of 22,993Top 50%
Waltham, MA: #36 of 1,656 inventorsTop 3%
Massachusetts: #2,544 of 88,656 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #100,737 of 4,157,543Top 3%
34 Patents All Time
Eric Whitman has been granted 34 US patents while listed as an inventor at Boston Dynamics. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in November 2025. Eric Whitman ranks #100,737 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.4%). Patent records list Eric Whitman in Waltham, MA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 34 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12468300 Detecting negative obstacles Jeffrey N. Yu, Benjamin Swilling 2025-11-11
12372982 Constrained mobility mapping Gina Christine Fay, Alex Khripin, Max Bajracharya, Matthew Malchano, Adam Komoroski +1 more 2025-07-29
12235652 Terrain aware step planning system Gina Christine Fay 2025-02-25
12214497 Footstep contact detection Alex Khripin 2025-02-04
12172537 Robust docking of robots with imperfect sensing Dion Gonano, Christopher Stathis, Matthew Jacob Klingensmith 2024-12-24
12151380 Robotically negotiating stairs Gina Christine Fay, Benjamin Swilling 2024-11-26
12134181 Robot choreographer Matthew Jacob Klingensmith, Marco da Silva, Alfred Anthony Rizzi 2024-11-05
12077229 Stair tracking for modeled and perceived terrain — 2024-09-03
12070863 Dynamic planning controller Alex Khripin 2024-08-27
12054208 Achieving a target gait behavior in a legged robot Benjamin Swilling, Stephen Berard, Alfred Anthony Rizzi, Alex Khripin, Gina Christine Fay 2024-08-06
11999423 Leg swing trajectories — 2024-06-04
11851120 Control of robotic devices with non-constant body pitch Gina Christine Fay, Alex Khripin 2023-12-26
11691292 Robot choreographer Matthew Jacob Klingensmith, Marco da Silva, Alfred Anthony Rizzi 2023-07-04
11660752 Perception and fitting for a stair tracker Gene Brown Merewether, Gina Christine Fay, Benjamin Swilling 2023-05-30
11599128 Perception and fitting for a stair tracker Gene Brown Merewether 2023-03-07
11548151 Robotically negotiating stairs Gina Christine Fay, Benjamin Swilling 2023-01-10
11465281 Dynamic planning controller Alex Khripin 2022-10-11
11447195 Leg swing trajectories — 2022-09-20
11416003 Constrained mobility mapping Gina Christine Fay, Alex Khripin, Max Bajracharya, Matthew Malchano, Adam Komoroski +1 more 2022-08-16
11383381 Footstep contact detection Alex Khripin 2022-07-12
11319005 Achieving a target gait behavior in a legged robot Benjamin Swilling, Stephen Berard, Alfred Anthony Rizzi, Alex Khripin, Gina Christine Fay 2022-05-03
11287826 Terrain aware step planning system Gina Christine Fay 2022-03-29
11123869 Robotically negotiating stairs Gina Christine Fay, Benjamin Swilling 2021-09-21
11073842 Perception and fitting for a stair tracker Gene Brown Merewether 2021-07-27
11059532 Control of robotic devices with non-constant body pitch Gina Christine Fay, Alex Khripin 2021-07-13

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