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Lucian Ion — 36 Patents

Google: 29 patents #560 of 22,993Top 3%
Apple: 6 patents #4,834 of 18,612Top 30%
DADalsa: 1 patents #24 of 55Top 45%
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
Lucian Ion has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in December 2025. Lucian Ion ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Lucian Ion in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2024.peak 102005: 1 patents20052019: 3 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 3 patents20212022: 6 patents20222023: 5 patents20232024: 10 patents20242025: 7 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12511914 Camera arrangements for vehicular object detection and avoidance Shanti S. Sharma, Jeremy Dittmer, Nirav Dharia 2025-12-30
12477205 Foveated imager for automotive applications Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Joseph Patrick Warga 2025-11-18
12475673 Smart sensor implementations of region of interest operating modes Nirav Dharia 2025-11-18
12417520 Systems and methods for a tone mapper solution for an autonomous driving system Xiaoying He, Ryan Geiss, Pieter Kapsenberg, Carl Warren Craddock, Zhinan Xu +1 more 2025-09-16
12394012 Systems, methods, and apparatus for aligning image frames Jia Feng 2025-08-19
12250468 Microlensing for real-time sensing of stray light Benjamin Frevert, Nirav Dharia 2025-03-11
12241618 Infrared light module uniformity rotational test module Choon Ping Chng, Cheng-Han Wu, Giulia Guidi 2025-03-04
12147891 High bandwidth camera data transmission Vlad Cardei 2024-11-19 $89,094,000
12078760 Multi-sensor synchronization measurement device Vlad Cardei 2024-09-03 $114,566,000
12052519 Smart sensor scheduler Vlad Cardei, Nirav Dharia 2024-07-30 $89,515,000
12020412 Systems and methods for a tone mapper solution for an autonomous driving system Xiaoying He, Ryan Geiss, Pieter Kapsenberg, Carl Warren Craddock, Zhinan Xu +1 more 2024-06-25 $162,704,000
12003894 Systems, methods, and apparatus for event detection Vlad Cardei 2024-06-04 $108,596,000
11972342 Image sensor architecture Vlad Cardei, Carl Warren Craddock 2024-04-30 $141,344,000
11962924 Smart sensor with region of interest capabilities Nirav Dharia, Vlad Cardei 2024-04-16 $101,211,000
11933647 Sensor region of interest selection based on multisensor data Nirav Dharia, Giulia Guidi, Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Vlad Cardei 2024-03-19 $87,363,000
11920770 Infrared light module uniformity rotational test module Choon Ping Chng, Cheng-Han Wu, Giulia Guidi 2024-03-05 $62,822,000
11880902 Systems, apparatus, and methods for enhanced image capture Ignacio Garcia-Dorado, Damien Kelly, Xiaoying He, Jia Feng, Bartlomiej Wronski +1 more 2024-01-23 $144,625,000
11756283 Smart sensor implementations of region of interest operating modes Nirav Dharia 2023-09-12 $80,406,000
11700459 Smart sensor scheduler Vlad Cardei, Nirav Dharia 2023-07-11 $137,541,000
11678059 Microlensing for real-time sensing of stray light Benjamin Frevert, Nirav Dharia 2023-06-13 $78,657,000
11600075 Nighttime sensing Daniel E. Potter, Evan C. Cull, Xiaofeng Tang 2023-03-07 $326,848,000
11578861 Infrared light module uniformity rotational test module Choon Ping Chng, Cheng-Han Wu, Giulia Guidi 2023-02-14 $83,918,000
11428550 Sensor region of interest selection based on multisensor data Nirav Dharia, Giulia Guidi, Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Vlad Cardei 2022-08-30 $81,663,000
11343435 Microlensing for real-time sensing of stray light Benjamin Frevert, Nirav Dharia 2022-05-24 $54,647,000
11320124 Infrared light module uniformity rotational test module Choon Ping Chng, Cheng-Han Wu, Giulia Guidi 2022-05-03 $88,215,000