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Larry E. Schmidt

Caterpillar: 12 patents #441 of 8,398Top 6%
Peoria, IL: #133 of 1,769 inventorsTop 8%
Illinois: #7,280 of 84,256 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #428,375 of 4,157,543Top 15%
12 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
6133643 Method for determining governor gains for a fuel control system Michael S. Lukich 2000-10-17
5956250 Apparatus and method for autonomous vehicle navigation using absolute data Adam J. Gudat, Dong Hun Shin, William Whittaker, Karl W. Kleimenhagen, Richard G. Clow +11 more 1999-09-21
5838562 System and a method for enabling a vehicle to track a preset path Adam J. Gudat, Walter J. Bradbury, Dana A. Christensen, Carl A. Kemner, Craig L. Koehrsen +17 more 1998-11-17
5684696 System and method for enabling an autonomous vehicle to track a desired path Prithvi Narayana Rao, Dong Hun Shin, William Whittaker, Karl W. Kleimenhagen, Sanjiv Singh +5 more 1997-11-04
5648901 System and method for generating paths in an autonomous vehicle Adam J. Gudat, Dong Hun Shin, William Whittaker, Karl W. Kleimenhagen, Sanjiv Singh +10 more 1997-07-15
5646843 Apparatus and method for surface based vehicle control system Adam J. Gudat, Karl W. Kleimenhagen, Dana A. Christensen, Carl A. Kemner, Walter J. Bradbury +6 more 1997-07-08
5646845 System and method for controlling an autonomously navigated vehicle Adam J. Gudat, William Whittaker, Karl W. Kleimenhagen, Dana A. Christensen, Carl A. Kemner +6 more 1997-07-08
5640323 System and method for operating an autonomous navigation system Karl W. Kleimenhagen, Carl A. Kemner, Walter J. Bradbury, Craig L. Koehrsen, Joel L. Peterson +2 more 1997-06-17
5615116 Apparatus and method for autonomous vehicle navigation using path data Adam J. Gudat, Prithvi Narayana Rao, Gary K. Shaffer, Wenfan Shi, Dong Hun Shin +15 more 1997-03-25
5610815 Integrated vehicle positioning and navigation system, apparatus and method Adam J. Gudat, Walter J. Bradbury, Dana A. Christensen, Richard G. Clow, Lonnie J. Devier +17 more 1997-03-11
5548516 Multi-tasked navigation system and method for an autonomous land based vehicle Adam J. Gudat, Prithvi Narayana Rao, Gary K. Shaffer, Wenfan Shi, Dong Hun Shin +17 more 1996-08-20
5201296 Control system for an internal combustion engine John J. Wunning, Errol W. Davis, Ronald J. Penick, Mohamad Z. Deiri, Paul M. Young 1993-04-13