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Michael Epstein — 65 Patents

Google: 33 patents #449 of 22,993Top 2%
LELightening Energy: 22 patents #2 of 6Top 35%
Meta: 3 patents #2,232 of 6,845Top 35%
CACallfire: 1 patents #9 of 12Top 75%
UTUs West Technologies: 1 patents #23 of 77Top 30%
Danville, CA: #23 of 1,210 inventorsTop 2%
California: #5,108 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #33,516 of 4,157,543Top 1%
65 Patents All Time
Michael Epstein has been granted 65 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in September 2025. Michael Epstein ranks #33,516 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.81%). Patent records list Michael Epstein in Danville, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 65 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12425822 Early boarding of passengers in autonomous vehicles Philip Nemec, Renaud-Roland Hubert, Joshua Seth Herbach, Min Li Chan, Salil Pandit +2 more 2025-09-23
12366461 Inconvenience for passenger pickups and drop offs for autonomous vehicles John Wesley Dyer, Leonid Yeykelis, Salil Pandit 2025-07-22
12330687 Queueing into pickup and drop-off locations John Wesley Dyer 2025-06-17
12332649 Reducing inconvenience to surrounding road users caused by stopped autonomous vehicles John Wesley Dyer, Ken-Pei Hu 2025-06-17
12280767 Driveway maneuvers for autonomous vehicles John Wesley Dyer, Jonathan Lee Pedersen 2025-04-22
12128778 Thermally control integrated high rate recharging station combined with data center and networking Eric Materniak 2024-10-29
11977387 Queueing into pickup and drop-off locations John Wesley Dyer 2024-05-07 $112,500,000
11971716 Suggesting alternative pickup and drop off locations for autonomous vehicles Joshua Seth Herbach, Mishika Vora, Guillaume Dupre, Kevin Rawlings 2024-04-30 $141,344,000
11884264 Driveway maneuvers for autonomous vehicles John Wesley Dyer, Jonathan Lee Pedersen 2024-01-30 $69,147,000
11747165 Inconvenience for passenger pickups and drop offs for autonomous vehicles John Wesley Dyer, Leonid Yeykelis, Salil Pandit 2023-09-05 $82,703,000
11720102 Parking behaviors for autonomous vehicles John Wesley Dyer, Konstantin Pervyshev, Jonathan Lee Pedersen, Salil Pandit 2023-08-08 $88,828,000
11716598 Early boarding of passengers in autonomous vehicles Philip Nemec, Renaud-Roland Hubert, Joshua Seth Herbach, Min Li Chan, Salil Pandit +2 more 2023-08-01 $112,973,000
11669783 Identifying unassigned passengers for autonomous vehicles John Wesley Dyer, Luis Torres, Yu-Hsin Chen 2023-06-06 $80,471,000
11657318 Assessing ride quality for autonomous vehicles Ioan-Alexandru Sucan, Fang Da, Poonam Suryanarayan, Nathaniel Fairfield, Yutaka Leon Suematsu +2 more 2023-05-23 $116,329,000
11543824 Queueing into pickup and drop-off locations John Wesley Dyer 2023-01-03 $55,420,000
11543823 Reducing inconvenience to surrounding road users caused by stopped autonomous vehicles John Wesley Dyer, Ken-Pei Hu 2023-01-03 $55,420,000
11475119 Recognizing assigned passengers for autonomous vehicles John Wesley Dyer, Luis Torres, Yu-Hsin Chen 2022-10-18 $56,365,000
11443634 Smart signs for autonomous vehicles John Wesley Dyer, Philip Nemec, Joshua Newby 2022-09-13 $81,437,000
11422558 Context aware stopping for autonomous vehicles John Wesley Dyer, Luis Torres, Guillaume Dupre, Joshua Seth Herbach 2022-08-23 $66,459,000
11342602 Rapid charging electric vehicle and method and apparatus for rapid charging Christopher K. Dyer, Duncan Culver 2022-05-24
11341826 Apparatus, system, and method for robotic sensing for haptic feedback Scott C. Wiley, Ahmad Byagowi 2022-05-24 $194,773,000
11297473 Early boarding of passengers in autonomous vehicles Philip Nemec, Renaud-Roland Hubert, Joshua Seth Herbach, Min Li Chan, Salil Pandit +2 more 2022-04-05 $106,112,000
11276890 Electric battery rapid recharging system including a mobile charging station having a coolant supply line and an electrical supply line Christopher K. Dyer, Duncan Culver 2022-03-15
11243535 Suggesting alternative pickup and drop off locations for autonomous vehicles Joshua Seth Herbach, Mishika Vora, Guillaume Dupre, Kevin Rawlings 2022-02-08 $118,775,000
11151482 Identifying unassigned passengers for autonomous vehicles John Wesley Dyer, Luis Torres, Yu-Hsin Chen 2021-10-19 $89,918,000