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Nathaniel Fairfield — 156 Patents

Google: 153 patents #16 of 22,993Top 1%
XDX Development: 1 patents #441 of 653Top 70%
Mountain View, CA: #18 of 11,022 inventorsTop 1%
California: #936 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #5,740 of 4,157,543Top 1%
156 Patents All Time
Nathaniel Fairfield has been granted 156 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in December 2025. Nathaniel Fairfield ranks #5,740 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.14%). Patent records list Nathaniel Fairfield in Mountain View, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 156 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12510890 Remote assistance for autonomous vehicles in predetermined situations Joshua Seth Herbach, Vadim Furman 2025-12-30
12499763 Reporting road event data and sharing with other vehicles Joshua Seth Herbach, Andrew Hughes Chatham, Michael Steven Montemerlo 2025-12-16
12472941 Traffic signal response for autonomous vehicles Jens-Steffen Ralf Gutmann, Andrew Wendel, Dmitri A. Dolgov, Donald Jason Burnette 2025-11-18
12468299 Arranging passenger pickups for autonomous vehicles Joshua Seth Herbach, Christopher Kennedy Ludwick, Matthew Paul McNaughton, Renaud-Roland Hubert, Jennifer Arden +1 more 2025-11-11
12271195 Systems and methods for vehicles with limited destination ability Dmitri A. Dolgov, Sebastian Thrun, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Christopher Paul Urmson, Anthony Levandowski 2025-04-08
12233852 Handling sensor occlusions for autonomous vehicles Brandon Douglas Luders, Vadim Furman 2025-02-25
12228928 System and method for evaluating the perception system of an autonomous vehicle Jiajun Zhu, Christopher Paul Urmson, Dirk Haehnel, Russell Smith 2025-02-18
12179749 Method and vehicle for responding to a lane blocking object Vadim Furman 2024-12-31 $118,851,000
12174640 Assisted perception for autonomous vehicles David I. Ferguson, Wan-Yen Lo 2024-12-24 $142,724,000
12165515 Reporting road event data and sharing with other vehicles Joshua Seth Herbach, Andrew Hughes Chatham, Michael Steven Montemerlo 2024-12-10 $140,382,000
12153432 Positioning vehicles to improve quality of observations at intersections David I. Ferguson, Bradley Templeton 2024-11-26 $103,833,000
12134384 Robust method for detecting traffic signals and their associated states David I. Ferguson, Anthony Levandowski 2024-11-05 $164,877,000
12099359 Modifying the behavior of an autonomous vehicle using context based parameter switching Jiajun Zhu, Christopher Paul Urmson, David I. Ferguson, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2024-09-24 $174,759,000
12090997 Predicting trajectories of objects based on contextual information David I. Ferguson, David Harrison Silver, Stephane Ross, Ioan-Alexandru Sucan 2024-09-17 $108,260,000
12085943 Independently actuated wheel sets for large autonomous self-driving vehicles Nolan Shenai, Benjamin Pitzer 2024-09-10 $77,150,000
12002367 Fallback requests for autonomous vehicles Joshua Seth Herbach, Philip Nemec 2024-06-04 $108,596,000
11970160 Traffic signal response for autonomous vehicles Jens-Steffen Ralf Gutmann, Andreas Wendel, Dmitri A. Dolgov, Donald Jason Burnette 2024-04-30 $141,344,000
11951975 Handling sensor occlusions for autonomous vehicles Brandon Douglas Luders, Vadim Furman 2024-04-09 $129,498,000
11938967 Preparing autonomous vehicles for turns Benjamin Charrow 2024-03-26 $93,619,000
11853067 Arranging passenger pickups for autonomous vehicles Joshua Seth Herbach, Christopher Kennedy Ludwick, Matthew Paul McNaughton, Renaud-Roland Hubert, Jennifer Arden +1 more 2023-12-26 $69,607,000
11851082 Kinematic model for autonomous truck routing Benjamin Pitzer, Austin Abrams, Christopher Bowen 2023-12-26 $69,607,000
11815903 Assisted perception for autonomous vehicles David I. Ferguson, Wan-Yen Lo 2023-11-14 $88,633,000
11780431 Testing predictions for autonomous vehicles Vadim Furman 2023-10-10 $80,003,000
11762386 Modifying the behavior of an autonomous vehicle using context based parameter switching Jiajun Zhu, Christopher Paul Urmson, David I. Ferguson, Dmitri A. Dolgov 2023-09-19 $79,588,000
11747811 Attempting to pull over for autonomous vehicles Brian Douglas Cullinane, David Tse-Zhou Lu, Anne Kristiina Aula, Jennifer Arden, Joshua Seth Herbach +2 more 2023-09-05 $82,703,000