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Stephen W. Decker — 18 Patents

General Motors: 6 patents #2,630 of 18,328Top 15%
AAAutoliv Asp: 4 patents #113 of 722Top 20%
Robert Bosch Gmbh: 4 patents #4,370 of 19,740Top 25%
AEAerojet-General: 1 patents #63 of 175Top 40%
GDGeneral Dynamics Corp., Pomona Division: 1 patents #673 of 871Top 80%
Clarkston, MI: #31 of 750 inventorsTop 5%
Michigan: #4,731 of 86,293 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Stephen W. Decker has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at General Motors. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in October 2021. Stephen W. Decker ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Stephen W. Decker in Clarkston, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2001.peak 31989: 1 patents19891996: 1 patents19961999: 1 patents19992000: 2 patents20002001: 3 patents20012006: 2 patents20062011: 2 patents20112019: 2 patents20192020: 2 patents20202021: 2 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11137493 System and method for detecting precipitation using radar Daniel Flores Tapia, Stephen W. Erskine 2021-10-05 $219,767,000
10928507 Apparatus and method for improved radar beamforming Daniel Flores Tapia 2021-02-23 $67,050,000
10859673 Method for disambiguating ambiguous detections in sensor fusion systems Lawrence A. Bush, Brent Navin Roger Bacchus, Shuqing Zeng 2020-12-08 $39,095,000
10663581 Detection systems and methods using ultra-short range radar Jeremy P. Gray, Igal Bilik, Shuqing Zeng 2020-05-26 $28,166,000
10276056 Vehicle safety system mobile target Michael J. Rasmussen, Thomas R. Brown, Daniel Rudd, Timothy J. Romelhardt, Arnold Michael Kirsch 2019-04-30 $9,833,000
10196007 Vehicle sensor mounting systems James N. Nickolaou, Jeremy P. Gray 2019-02-05 $14,285,000
8060280 Vision system for deploying safety systems Salah Hadi 2011-11-15 $4,141,000
7898400 Enhanced vision road detection system Salah Hadi 2011-03-01 $18,349,000
7084385 Range discriminating optical sensor having a wide angle lens with a fixed focal length Bernard DeMersseman 2006-08-01 $6,489,000
6993422 Pre-crash nose dipping system Bernard de Mersseman, Saeed David Barbat, Charles Sherwin 2006-01-31 $4,232,000
6272411 Method of operating a vehicle occupancy state sensor system Anthony P. Corrado, Paul K. Benbow 2001-08-07
6249729 Keep out zone incursion fast sensing mode for airbag deployment systems Anthony P. Corrado, Ralf Seip 2001-06-19
6171022 Method of attaching mat for controlling erosion — 2001-01-09
6136219 Composition for water clarification — 2000-10-24
6026340 Automotive occupant sensor system and method of operation by sensor fusion Anthony P. Corrado, Paul K. Benbow 2000-02-15
5890085 Methods of occupancy state determination and computer programs Anthony P. Corrado, Paul K. Benbow 1999-03-30
5482314 Automotive occupant sensor system and method of operation by sensor fusion Anthony P. Corrado, Paul K. Benbow 1996-01-09 $1,484,000
4843587 Processing system for performing matrix multiplication Richard S. Schlunt 1989-06-27 $8,228,000

Frequent Collaborators

Anthony P. Corrado5 shared
Paul K. Benbow4 shared
Salah Hadi2 shared
Shuqing Zeng2 shared
Daniel Flores Tapia2 shared
Jeremy P. Gray2 shared

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