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Google: 99 patents #35 of 22,993Top 1%
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AIAurora Innovation: 2 patents #8 of 25Top 35%
General Motors: 1 patents #9,361 of 18,328Top 55%
Mountain View, CA: #43 of 11,022 inventorsTop 1%
California: #1,880 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #12,061 of 4,157,543Top 1%
109 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 51–75 of 109 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9811091 Modifying behavior of autonomous vehicles based on sensor blind spots and limitations Dmitri A. Dolgov 2017-11-07
9720412 Modifying the behavior of an autonomous vehicle using context based parameter switching Jiajun Zhu, David I. Ferguson, Nathaniel Fairfield, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2017-08-01
9709679 Building elevation maps from laser data Andrew Hughes Chatham, Hendrik Dahlkamp, Michael Steven Montemerlo, Jiajun Zhu 2017-07-18
9690296 Avoiding blind spots of other vehicles Dmitri A. Dolgov 2017-06-27
9679191 System and method for evaluating the perception system of an autonomous vehicle Jiajun Zhu, Dirk Haehnel, Nathaniel Fairfield, Russell Smith 2017-06-13
9658620 System and method of providing recommendations to users of vehicles Dmitri A. Dolgov, Andrew Hughes Chatham, Philip Nemec 2017-05-23
9582907 User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system Andrew Timothy Szybalski, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Philip Nemec, Sebastian Thrun 2017-02-28
9555740 Cross-validating sensors of an autonomous vehicle Jiajun Zhu, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2017-01-31
9519287 User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system Andrew Timothy Szybalski, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Sebastian Thrun, Philip Nemec 2016-12-13
9499172 Detecting road weather conditions Michael Steven Montemerlo, Jiajun Zhu 2016-11-22
9476970 Camera based localization Nathaniel Fairfield, Michael Steven Montemerlo 2016-10-25
9400183 Method and apparatus to transition between levels using warp zones Michael Steven Montemerlo, Andrew Hughes Chatham, Daniel Egnor 2016-07-26
9383749 Transitioning a mixed-mode vehicle to autonomous mode Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Nathaniel Fairfield, Andy Szybalski, Philip Nemec 2016-07-05
9367065 Modifying behavior of autonomous vehicles based on sensor blind spots and limitations Dmitri A. Dolgov 2016-06-14
9342074 Systems and methods for transitioning control of an autonomous vehicle to a driver Dmitri A. Dolgov, Andrew Schultz, Daniel Egnor 2016-05-17
9315178 Model checking for autonomous vehicles David I. Ferguson, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2016-04-19
9268332 Zone driving Michael Steven Montemerlo, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2016-02-23
9261379 Intersection completer Andrew Hughes Chatham 2016-02-16
9221396 Cross-validating sensors of an autonomous vehicle Jiajun Zhu, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2015-12-29
9196164 Pedestrian notifications Ian James Mahon, Dmitri A. Dolgov, Jiajun Zhu 2015-11-24
9180882 Avoiding blind spots of other vehicles Dmitri A. Dolgov 2015-11-10
9132840 User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system Andrew Timothy Szybalski, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Philip Nemec, Sebastian Thrun 2015-09-15
9134729 User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system Andrew Timothy Szybalski, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Sebastian Thrun, Philip Nemec 2015-09-15
9122948 System and method for evaluating the perception system of an autonomous vehicle Jiajun Zhu, Dirk Haehnel, Nathaniel Fairfield, Russell Smith 2015-09-01
9110196 Detecting road weather conditions Michael Steven Montemerlo, Jiajun Zhu 2015-08-18