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Christopher Paul Urmson — 111 Patents

Google: 100 patents #35 of 22,993Top 1%
AOAurora Operations: 6 patents #22 of 269Top 9%
AIAurora Innovation: 2 patents #8 of 25Top 35%
General Motors: 1 patents #9,441 of 18,328Top 55%
Mountain View, CA: #42 of 11,022 inventorsTop 1%
California: #1,845 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #11,724 of 4,157,543Top 1%
111 Patents All Time
Christopher Paul Urmson has been granted 111 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in November 2025. Christopher Paul Urmson ranks #11,724 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.28%). Patent records list Christopher Paul Urmson in Mountain View, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 111 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12483522 Natural language communications with an autonomous vehicle Sterling J. Anderson, James Andrew Bagnell, Jau-Ching L. Leu, Colin Mease 2025-11-25
12459535 Autonomous vehicle anomalous event detection Sterling J. Anderson, J. Andrew Bagnell 2025-11-04
12397805 Cross-validating sensors of an autonomous vehicle Jiajun Zhu, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2025-08-26
12304494 Control of autonomous vehicle based on determined yaw parameter(s) of additional vehicle Warren Smith, Ethan Eade, Sterling J. Anderson, James Andrew Bagnell, Bartholomeus C. Nabbe 2025-05-20
12271195 Systems and methods for vehicles with limited destination ability Dmitri A. Dolgov, Sebastian Thrun, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Nathaniel Fairfield, Anthony Levandowski 2025-04-08
12228928 System and method for evaluating the perception system of an autonomous vehicle Jiajun Zhu, Dirk Haehnel, Nathaniel Fairfield, Russell Smith 2025-02-18
12197215 System and method of providing recommendations to users of vehicles Dmitri A. Dolgov, Andrew Hughes Chatham, Philip Nemec 2025-01-14
12099359 Modifying the behavior of an autonomous vehicle using context based parameter switching Jiajun Zhu, David I. Ferguson, Nathaniel Fairfield, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2024-09-24 $174,759,000
11964663 Control of autonomous vehicle based on determined yaw parameter(s) of additional vehicle Warren Smith, Ethan Eade, Sterling J. Anderson, James Andrew Bagnell, Bartholomeus C. Nabbe 2024-04-23
11933902 Control of autonomous vehicle based on environmental object classification determined using phase coherent LIDAR data Warren Smith, Ethan Eade, Sterling J. Anderson, James Andrew Bagnell, Bartholomeus C. Nabbe 2024-03-19
11872998 Cross-validating sensors of an autonomous vehicle Jiajun Zhu, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2024-01-16 $115,438,000
11868133 Avoiding blind spots of other vehicles Dmitri A. Dolgov 2024-01-09 $88,181,000
11852492 Method and apparatus to transition between levels using warp zones Michael Steven Montemerlo, Andrew Hughes Chatham, Daniel Egnor 2023-12-26 $69,607,000
11762386 Modifying the behavior of an autonomous vehicle using context based parameter switching Jiajun Zhu, David I. Ferguson, Nathaniel Fairfield, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2023-09-19 $79,588,000
11745742 Planning stopping locations for autonomous vehicles Jared Stephen Russell, Dmitri A. Dolgov, Nathaniel Fairfield, Laura Estelle Lindzey 2023-09-05 $82,703,000
11747809 System and method for evaluating the perception system of an autonomous vehicle Jiajun Zhu, Dirk Haehnel, Nathaniel Fairfield, Russell Smith 2023-09-05 $82,703,000
11727523 Autonomous vehicle services Peter Colijn, Dmitri A. Dolgov, Nathaniel Fairfield, Salil Pandit, Nirmal Patel +2 more 2023-08-15 $71,308,000
11726493 Modifying behavior of autonomous vehicles based on sensor blind spots and limitations Dmitri A. Dolgov 2023-08-15 $71,308,000
11720101 Systems and methods for vehicles with limited destination ability Dmitri A. Dolgov, Sebastian Thrun, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Nathaniel Fairfield, Anthony Levandowski 2023-08-08 $88,828,000
11654917 Control of autonomous vehicle based on determined yaw parameter(s) of additional vehicle Warren Smith, Ethan Eade, Sterling J. Anderson, James Andrew Bagnell, Bartholomeus C. Nabbe 2023-05-23
11550061 Control of autonomous vehicle based on environmental object classification determined using phase coherent LIDAR data Warren Smith, Ethan Eade, Sterling J. Anderson, James Andrew Bagnell, Bartholomeus C. Nabbe 2023-01-10
11518395 Cross-validating sensors of an autonomous vehicle Jiajun Zhu, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2022-12-06 $77,337,000
11358601 Training machine learning model based on training instances with: training instance input based on autonomous vehicle sensor data, and training instance output based on additional vehicle sensor data Warren Smith, Ethan Eade, Sterling J. Anderson, James Andrew Bagnell, Bartholomeus C. Nabbe 2022-06-14
11287817 System and method of providing recommendations to users of vehicles Dmitri A. Dolgov, Andrew Hughes Chatham, Philip Nemec 2022-03-29 $86,271,000
11205240 Autonomous vehicle services Peter Colijn, Dmitri A. Dolgov, Nathaniel Fairfield, Salil Pandit, Nirmal Patel +2 more 2021-12-21 $200,100,000