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Christopher Kennedy Ludwick — 19 Patents

Google: 19 patents #1,075 of 22,993Top 5%
Los Altos, CA: #617 of 3,651 inventorsTop 20%
California: #31,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Christopher Kennedy Ludwick has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in November 2025. Christopher Kennedy Ludwick ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Christopher Kennedy Ludwick in Los Altos, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2016 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2020.peak 42016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents20182020: 4 patents20202021: 3 patents20212023: 4 patents20232024: 3 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12468299 Arranging passenger pickups for autonomous vehicles Nathaniel Fairfield, Joshua Seth Herbach, Matthew Paul McNaughton, Renaud-Roland Hubert, Jennifer Arden +1 more 2025-11-11
12197213 Systems for implementing fallback behaviors for autonomous vehicles Emily Chi, Ryan Joseph Andrade, Michael James, Ioan-Alexandru Sucan, Joshua Seth Herbach +2 more 2025-01-14
12099365 Determining and responding to an internal status of a vehicle Andreas Wendel, Laurens Andreas Feenstra 2024-09-24 $174,759,000
11959759 Managing a fleet of vehicles Andrew Hughes Chatham, Matthew Paul McNaughton, Charles Bigelow Johnson 2024-04-16 $101,211,000
11912292 Redundant hardware system for autonomous vehicles Emily Chi, Ryan Joseph Andrade, Andreas Wendel, Michael James, Christian Lauterbach +5 more 2024-02-27 $97,983,000
11853067 Arranging passenger pickups for autonomous vehicles Nathaniel Fairfield, Joshua Seth Herbach, Matthew Paul McNaughton, Renaud-Roland Hubert, Jennifer Arden +1 more 2023-12-26 $69,607,000
11803183 Autonomous vehicles Philip Nemec, Anne Kristiina Aula, David Tse-Zhou Lu, Brian Douglas Cullinane, Calvin Karl Johnson +2 more 2023-10-31 $122,489,000
11693405 Systems for implementing fallback behaviors for autonomous vehicles Emily Chi, Ryan Joseph Andrade, Michael James, Ioan-Alexandru Sucan, Joshua Seth Herbach +2 more 2023-07-04
11619949 Determining and responding to an internal status of a vehicle Andreas Wendel, Laurens Andreas Feenstra 2023-04-04 $100,779,000
11208111 Redundant hardware system for autonomous vehicles Emily Chi, Ryan Joseph Andrade, Andreas Wendel, Michael James, Christian Lauterbach +5 more 2021-12-28 $102,088,000
11175666 Arranging passenger pickups for autonomous vehicles Nathaniel Fairfield, Joshua Seth Herbach, Matthew Paul McNaughton, Renaud-Roland Hubert, Jennifer Arden +1 more 2021-11-16 $125,303,000
11168995 Managing a fleet of vehicles Andrew Hughes Chatham, Matthew Paul McNaughton, Charles Bigelow Johnson 2021-11-09 $103,439,000
10838417 Systems for implementing fallback behaviors for autonomous vehicles Emily Chi, Ryan Joseph Andrade, Michael James, Ioan-Alexandru Sucan, Joshua Seth Herbach +2 more 2020-11-17 $62,652,000
10838425 Determining and responding to an internal status of a vehicle Andreas Wendel, Laurens Andreas Feenstra 2020-11-17 $62,652,000
10795355 Autonomous vehicles Philip Nemec, Anne Kristiina Aula, David Tse-Zhou Lu, Brian Douglas Cullinane, Calvin Karl Johnson +2 more 2020-10-06 $47,799,000
10591916 Arranging passenger pickups for autonomous vehicles Nathaniel Fairfield, Joshua Seth Herbach, Matthew Paul McNaughton, Renaud-Roland Hubert, Jennifer Arden +1 more 2020-03-17 $28,804,000
9983582 Autonomous vehicles Philip Nemec, Anne Kristiina Aula, David Tse-Zhou Lu, Brian Douglas Cullinane, Calvin Karl Johnson +2 more 2018-05-29 $25,054,000
9836057 Arranging passenger pickups for autonomous vehicles Nathaniel Fairfield, Joshua Seth Herbach, Matthew Paul McNaughton, Renaud-Roland Hubert, Jennifer Arden +1 more 2017-12-05 $16,818,000
9436182 Autonomous vehicles Philip Nemec, Anne Kristiina Aula, David Tse-Zhou Lu, Brian Douglas Cullinane, Calvin Karl Johnson +2 more 2016-09-06 $12,831,000