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Caner Onal — 44 Patents

Google: 40 patents #297 of 22,993Top 2%
Micron: 4 patents #3,077 of 6,374Top 50%
Palo Alto, CA: #435 of 9,675 inventorsTop 5%
California: #9,924 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #66,838 of 4,157,543Top 2%
44 Patents All Time
Caner Onal has been granted 44 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in October 2025. Caner Onal ranks #66,838 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.6%). Patent records list Caner Onal in Palo Alto, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 44 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12453205 Controlling detection time in photodetectors Simon Verghese, Pierre-Yves Droz 2025-10-21
12422563 Differential methods for environment estimation, lidar impairment detection, and filtering Jingyuan Zhang, Kanika Sachdev, Michael Marx, Yuchi Wang 2025-09-23
12352900 Light detection and ranging (lidar) device having a light-guide manifold Pierre-Yves Droz, Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Augusto Tazzoli, David Hutchison, David Schleuning +14 more 2025-07-08
12292502 Limitation of noise on light detectors using an aperture Pierre-Yves Droz, Blaise Gassend, David Hutchison 2025-05-06
12169252 Pulse energy plan for light detection and ranging (lidar) devices based on areas of interest and thermal budgets Pierre-Yves Droz, Simon Ellgas, Augusto Tazzoli 2024-12-17 $219,318,000
12164031 Method and system for a threshold noise filter Kanika Sachdev, Pierre-Yves Droz 2024-12-10 $140,382,000
12155000 Monolithic silicon photomultiplier array Pierre-Yves Droz, Nirav Dharia 2024-11-26 $103,833,000
12147000 Programmable SiPM arrays Simon Verghese, Pierre-Yves Droz 2024-11-19 $89,094,000
12105200 Detecting retroreflectors in NIR images to control LIDAR scan Nirav Dharia, Giulia Guidi 2024-10-01 $125,607,000
12072451 Methods for detecting LIDAR aperture fouling Jingyuan Zhang 2024-08-27 $76,949,000
12032097 Hybrid time-of-flight and imager module David Schleuning, Brendan Hermalyn, Simon Verghese, Alex McCauley, Brandyn White +1 more 2024-07-09 $110,555,000
12032101 Calibration system for light detection and ranging (lidar) devices Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Pierre-Yves Droz, Hui Son 2024-07-09 $110,555,000
11973154 Controlling detection time in photodetectors Simon Verghese, Pierre-Yves Droz 2024-04-30 $141,344,000
11921206 Limitation of noise on light detectors using an aperture Pierre-Yves Droz, Blaise Gassend, David Hutchison 2024-03-05 $62,822,000
11874402 SiPM with cells of different sizes including at least one large-area cell is substantially centered along a substrate with respect to the optical axis of an aperture array Nirav Dharia 2024-01-16 $115,438,000
11860305 Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device having multiple receivers Pierre-Yves Droz, William McCann, Bernard Fidric, Vadim Gutnik, Laila Mattos +1 more 2024-01-02 $82,860,000
11808887 Methods and systems for mapping retroreflectors Pierre-Yves Droz, Michael Marx, Blaise Gassend 2023-11-07 $93,622,000
11774556 Combination photodetector arrays for extended dynamic range Blaise Gassend, Pierre-Yves Droz 2023-10-03 $89,266,000
11747453 Calibration system for light detection and ranging (lidar) devices Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Pierre-Yves Droz, Hui Son 2023-09-05 $82,703,000
11740333 Pulse energy plan for light detection and ranging (lidar) devices based on areas of interest and thermal budgets Pierre-Yves Droz, Simon Ellgas, Augusto Tazzoli 2023-08-29 $88,497,000
11681022 Aggregating non-imaging SPAD architecture for full digital monolithic, frame averaging receivers Pierre-Yves Droz 2023-06-20 $115,033,000
11609313 Hybrid time-of-flight and imager module David Schleuning, Brendan Hermalyn, Simon Verghese, Alex McCauley, Brandyn White +1 more 2023-03-21 $89,540,000
11594650 Controlling detection time in photodetectors Simon Verghese, Pierre-Yves Droz 2023-02-28 $65,971,000
11536834 Limitation of noise on light detectors using an aperture Pierre-Yves Droz, Blaise Gassend, David Hutchison 2022-12-27 $61,722,000
11392124 Method and system for calibrating a plurality of detection systems in a vehicle Colin Braley, Dorel Ionut Iordache, Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Pierre-Yves Droz 2022-07-19 $70,253,000