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Colin Braley — 36 Patents

Google: 34 patents #420 of 22,993Top 2%
XDX Development: 2 patents #311 of 653Top 50%
Mountain View, CA: #455 of 11,022 inventorsTop 5%
California: #13,468 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
Colin Braley has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in December 2025. Colin Braley ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Colin Braley in Mountain View, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12505267 High fidelity simulations for autonomous vehicles based on retro-reflection metrology Arthur Safira, Harrison Lee McKenzie Chapter, Hui Son, Aleksandar Rumenov Gabrovski, Brian Choung Choi 2025-12-23
12422529 Auto-exposure occlusion camera Po-Chao Huang, Chase Salsbury, Hanna Revinskaya 2025-09-23
12422534 Methods and systems for detecting obstructions on a sensor housing Gil Shotan, Luke Wachter, Christian Lauterbach, Xiaoxiang Hu, Ming Zou 2025-09-23
12275430 Identification of proxy calibration targets for a fleet of vehicles Volker Grabe, Volodymyr V. Ivanchenko, Alexander Meade 2025-04-15
12174324 In-situ sensor calibration for autonomous vehicles Antonio Teran Espinoza 2024-12-24 $142,724,000
12131550 Methods and apparatus for validating sensor data Volodymyr V. Ivanchenko 2024-10-29 $126,209,000
12085678 Methods for localizing light detection and ranging (lidar) calibration targets Gil Shotan, Volker Grabe, Volodymyr V. Ivanchenko 2024-09-10 $77,150,000
12071156 Planning for occlusions with surfel maps Michael Buchanan, Aleksandar Rumenov Gabrovski, David Yonchar Margines 2024-08-27 $76,949,000
12066578 Calibration and localization of a light detection and ranging (lidar) device using a previously calibrated and localized lidar device Mingcheng Chen, Volker Grabe, Christian Lauterbach 2024-08-20 $112,098,000
12050267 Doppler-assisted object mapping for autonomous vehicle applications Nicholas Armstrong-Crews, Mingcheng Chen, Xiaoxiang Hu, Yunshan Jiang 2024-07-30 $89,515,000
11965965 Localization initialization for autonomous vehicles Mingcheng Chen, Craig Lewin Robinson, Christian Lauterbach 2024-04-23 $109,442,000
11961272 Long range localization with surfel maps David Yonchar Margines, Carlos Hernandez Esteban, Michael Steven Montemerlo, Peter Pawlowski 2024-04-16 $101,211,000
11954411 High fidelity simulations for autonomous vehicles based on retro-reflection metrology Arthur Safira, Harrison Lee McKenzie Chapter, Hui Son, Aleksandar Rumenov Gabrovski, Brian Choung Choi 2024-04-09 $129,498,000
11945467 Identification of proxy calibration targets for a fleet of vehicles Volker Grabe, Volodymyr V. Ivanchenko, Alexander Meade 2024-04-02 $80,757,000
11933920 Methods and systems for detecting obstructions on a sensor housing Gil Shotan, Luke Wachter, Christian Lauterbach, Xiaoxiang Hu, Ming Zou 2024-03-19 $87,363,000
11915490 Annotated surfel maps Dragomir Anguelov, Christoph Sprunk 2024-02-27 $97,983,000
11860626 Vehicle sensor verification and calibration Stephanie McArthur, Mark Alexander Shand 2024-01-02 $82,860,000
11734880 Sensor calibration with environment map Christian Lauterbach, Carlos Hernandez Esteban, Michael Steven Montemerlo 2023-08-22 $85,414,000
11699274 Long range localization with surfel maps David Yonchar Margines, Carlos Hernandez Esteban, Michael Steven Montemerlo, Peter Pawlowski 2023-07-11 $137,541,000
11634153 Identification of proxy calibration targets for a fleet of vehicles Volker Grabe, Volodymyr V. Ivanchenko, Alexander Meade 2023-04-25 $100,293,000
11630209 Laser waveform embedding Mingcheng Chen, Christian Lauterbach 2023-04-18 $137,707,000
11615553 Calibration of detection system to vehicle using a mirror Craig Lewin Robinson, Volker Grabe, Zachary Morriss, Stephanie McArthur, Andrew Crawford 2023-03-28 $126,871,000
11605173 Three-dimensional point cloud labeling using distance field data 2023-03-14 $81,602,000
11473931 Surfel map editing Michael Steven Montemerlo 2022-10-18 $56,365,000
11417110 Annotated surfel maps Dragomir Anguelov, Christoph Sprunk 2022-08-16 $112,420,000