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David I. Ferguson — 260 Patents

Google: 222 patents #6 of 22,993Top 1%
NUNuro: 33 patents #1 of 128Top 1%
XDX Development: 1 patents #441 of 653Top 70%
San Francisco, CA: #43 of 26,999 inventorsTop 1%
California: #318 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #1,817 of 4,157,543Top 1%
260 Patents All Time
David I. Ferguson has been granted 260 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in December 2025. David I. Ferguson ranks #1,817 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.04%). Patent records list David I. Ferguson in San Francisco, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 260 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12499691 Vision-based detection and classification of traffic lights Andrew Wendel 2025-12-16
12491639 Framework for robotic assistants Jianyun Zhu 2025-12-09
12423990 Detecting and responding to parking behaviors in autonomous vehicles David Harrison Silver 2025-09-23
12354481 Determining changes in a driving environment based on vehicle behavior 2025-07-08
12339660 Change detection using curve alignment David Harrison Silver 2025-06-24
12332652 Determining the stationary state of detected vehicles David Harrison Silver 2025-06-17
12327415 Use of relationship between activities of different traffic signals in a network to improve traffic signal state estimation Bradley Templeton 2025-06-10
12277873 Method and apparatus for displaying media on an autonomous vehicle Jiajun Zhu, Pichayut Jirapinyo, Cosimo Leipold 2025-04-15
12236327 Automated system and method for modeling the behavior of vehicles and other agents Jiajun Zhu, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2025-02-25
12230140 Actively modifying a field of view of an autonomous vehicle in view of constraints Jiajun Zhu 2025-02-18
12228926 System and method for predicting behaviors of detected objects through environment representation Jiajun Zhu 2025-02-18
12187320 Mapping active and inactive construction zones for autonomous driving Donald Jason Burnette 2025-01-07
12174640 Assisted perception for autonomous vehicles Wan-Yen Lo, Nathaniel Fairfield 2024-12-24 $142,724,000
12153432 Positioning vehicles to improve quality of observations at intersections Nathaniel Fairfield, Bradley Templeton 2024-11-26 $103,833,000
12134384 Robust method for detecting traffic signals and their associated states Nathaniel Fairfield, Anthony Levandowski 2024-11-05 $164,877,000
12112655 Systems and methods for one-click delivery of autonomous vehicle Jiajun Zhu, Pichayut Jirapinyo, Nan Ransohoff 2024-10-08
12099359 Modifying the behavior of an autonomous vehicle using context based parameter switching Jiajun Zhu, Christopher Paul Urmson, Nathaniel Fairfield, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2024-09-24 $174,759,000
12090997 Predicting trajectories of objects based on contextual information David Harrison Silver, Stephane Ross, Nathaniel Fairfield, Ioan-Alexandru Sucan 2024-09-17 $108,260,000
12019443 Use of detected objects for image processing Abhijit Ogale 2024-06-25 $162,704,000
12001217 Detecting sensor degradation by actively controlling an autonomous vehicle Jiajun Zhu 2024-06-04 $108,596,000
11921510 Approach for consolidating observed vehicle trajectories into a single representative trajectory Jiajun Zhu 2024-03-05 $62,822,000
11908328 Determining changes in a driving environment based on vehicle behavior 2024-02-20 $78,256,000
11900693 Use of relationship between activities of different traffic signals in a network to improve traffic signal state estimation Bradley Templeton 2024-02-13 $89,356,000
11878683 Automated system and method for modeling the behavior of vehicles and other agents Jiajun Zhu, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2024-01-23 $144,625,000
11835959 Determining the stationary state of detected vehicles David Harrison Silver 2023-12-05 $99,298,000