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James R. Bruce — 29 Patents

Google: 28 patents #600 of 22,993Top 3%
Sony: 1 patents #17,321 of 25,231Top 70%
Sunnyvale, CA: #805 of 14,302 inventorsTop 6%
California: #18,137 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
James R. Bruce has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in January 2021. James R. Bruce ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list James R. Bruce in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2011 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2014.peak 72011: 1 patents20112013: 6 patents20132014: 7 patents20142015: 6 patents20152016: 2 patents20162017: 2 patents20172019: 3 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10891780 Methods and systems for viewing a three-dimensional (3D) virtual object James J. Kuffner, Jr., Thor Lewis, Sumit Jain 2021-01-12 $52,130,000
10565786 Sensor placement interface Greg Klein, Arshan Poursohi 2020-02-18 $43,000,000
10460510 Methods and systems for viewing a three-dimensional (3D) virtual object James J. Kuffner, Jr., Thor Lewis, Sumit Jain 2019-10-29 $29,755,000
10230941 Systems and devices for acquiring imagery and three-dimensional (3D) models of objects Arshan Poursohi 2019-03-12 $34,476,000
10210618 Object image masking using depth cameras or three-dimensional (3D) models James J. Kuffner, Jr., Ken Conley, Arshan Poursohi 2019-02-19 $22,822,000
9836483 Using a mobile device for coarse shape matching against cloud-based 3D model database Ryan Hickman, James J. Kuffner, Jr., Anthony Gerald Francis, Jr., Arshan Poursohi, Chaitanya Gharpure 2017-12-05 $16,818,000
9807373 Systems and devices for acquiring imagery and three-dimensional (3D) models of objects Arshan Poursohi 2017-10-31 $13,059,000
9417185 Controlling light arrays to determine properties of an object Ryan Hickman, James J. Kuffner, Jr., Arshan Poursohi 2016-08-16 $13,695,000
9361665 Methods and systems for viewing a three-dimensional (3D) virtual object James J. Kuffner, Jr., Thor Lewis, Sumit Jain 2016-06-07 $23,083,000
9183672 Embeddable three-dimensional (3D) image viewer Ryan Hickman, James J. Kuffner, Jr., Anthony Gerald Francis, Jr., Arshan Poursohi, Thor Lewis +1 more 2015-11-10 $17,194,000
9147279 Systems and methods for merging textures Christian Frueh, Arshan Poursohi 2015-09-29 $17,122,000
9019268 Modification of a three-dimensional (3D) object data model based on a comparison of images and statistical information James J. Kuffner, Jr., Anthony Gerald Francis, Jr., Arshan Poursohi 2015-04-28 $11,819,000
8976179 Determining 3D model information from stored images James J. Kuffner, Jr., Arshan Poursohi, Ryan Hickman 2015-03-10 $10,628,000
8965104 Machine vision calibration with cloud computing systems Ryan Hickman 2015-02-24 $9,847,000
8948498 Systems and methods to transform a colored point cloud to a 3D textured mesh Ryan Hickman, James J. Kuffner, Jr. 2015-02-03 $8,180,000
8922576 Side-by-side and synchronized displays for three-dimensional (3D) object data models Ryan Hickman, James J. Kuffner, Jr., Anthony Gerald Francis, Jr., Arshan Poursohi, Thor Lewis +1 more 2014-12-30 $10,328,000
8848201 Multi-modal three-dimensional scanning of objects Ryan Hickman, Arshan Poursohi 2014-09-30 $10,831,000
8831366 Encoding and compressing three-dimensional (3D) object data models Ryan Hickman, James J. Kuffner, Jr., Anthony Gerald Francis, Jr., Arshan Poursohi, Thor Lewis +2 more 2014-09-09 $9,719,000
8817021 System for writing, interpreting, and translating three-dimensional (3D) scenes Ryan Hickman, James J. Kuffner, Jr., Anthony Gerald Francis, Jr., Arshan Poursohi, Thor Lewis +1 more 2014-08-26 $10,104,000
8766997 Side-by-side and synchronized displays for three-dimensional (3D) object data models Ryan Hickman, James J. Kuffner, Jr., Anthony Gerald Francis, Jr., Arshan Poursohi, Thor Lewis +1 more 2014-07-01 $13,746,000
8754887 Determining three-dimensional (3D) object data models based on object movement James J. Kuffner, Jr., Anthony Gerald Francis, Jr., Arshan Poursohi, Ryan Hickman 2014-06-17 $17,037,000
8639644 Shared robot knowledge base for use with cloud computing system Ryan Hickman, James J. Kuffner, Jr., Chaitanya Gharpure, Damon Kohler, Arshan Poursohi +2 more 2014-01-28 $42,603,000
8525846 Shader and material layers for rendering three-dimensional (3D) object data models Ryan Hickman, James J. Kuffner, Jr., Anthony Gerald Francis, Jr., Arshan Poursohi, Thor Lewis +1 more 2013-09-03 $30,213,000
8515982 Annotations for three-dimensional (3D) object data models Ryan Hickman, James J. Kuffner, Jr., Anthony Gerald Francis, Jr., Arshan Poursohi, Thor Lewis +1 more 2013-08-20 $20,664,000
8456467 Embeddable three-dimensional (3D) image viewer Ryan Hickman, James J. Kuffner, Jr., Anthony Gerald Francis, Jr., Arshan Poursohi, Thor Lewis +1 more 2013-06-04 $32,632,000