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Paul Karplus — 36 Patents

Google: 34 patents #420 of 22,993Top 2%
MMMission Motor: 1 patents #3 of 11Top 30%
Tesla: 1 patents #515 of 838Top 65%
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
Paul Karplus has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in November 2025. Paul Karplus ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Paul Karplus in Mountain View, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12468020 Optical redirector device Blaise Gassend, David G. Duff, Pierre-Yves Droz, Jason Watson, Michael Brickner +1 more 2025-11-11
12416719 Waveguide apparatus with high speed dual channel wireless contactless rotary joint Zhe Li, Jamal Izadian, Pierre-Yves Droz, Min Wang, Samuel William Lenius +1 more 2025-09-16
12216231 Systems and methods for data communication via a rotary link Youming Qin 2025-02-04
12210073 Motor and rotary transformer with shared magnetic core Samuel William Lenius 2025-01-28
12130383 Rotatable mirror device Blaise Gassend, David G. Duff, Hui Son, Alex Rivas 2024-10-29 $126,209,000
12085647 LIDAR occlusion detection methods and systems Blaise Gassend, Nicholas Armstrong-Crews, Scott McCloskey 2024-09-10 $77,150,000
D1038789 Sensor housing YooJung Ahn, David G. Duff, Joshua Newby, Candace Marbury 2024-08-13
12055659 Optical redirector device Blaise Gassend, David G. Duff, Pierre-Yves Droz, Jason Watson, Michael Brickner +1 more 2024-08-06 $132,097,000
11942757 Laser package with high precision lens Matthew E. Last 2024-03-26 $93,619,000
11909263 Planar rotary transformer 2024-02-20 $78,256,000
11860249 Motor and rotary transformer with shared magnetic core Samuel William Lenius 2024-01-02 $82,860,000
11851033 Control for passive wiper system Graham Doorley, Peter Avram 2023-12-26 $69,607,000
11841463 Optimized high speed lidar mirror design Blaise Gassend, David G. Duff 2023-12-12 $79,228,000
D993051 Sensor housing YooJung Ahn, David G. Duff, Joshua Newby, Candace Marbury 2023-07-25
11688917 Radar system for use in a vehicle comprising a rotary joint where a non-rotational unit is fixed to the vehicle and a rotational unit includes antennas configured for use with radar signals Zhe Li, Jamal Izadian, Pierre-Yves Droz, Min Wang, Samuel William Lenius +1 more 2023-06-27 $76,505,000
11554756 Control for passive wiper system Graham Doorley, Peter Avram 2023-01-17 $46,717,000
11506731 Motor and rotary transformer with shared magnetic core Samuel William Lenius 2022-11-22 $91,879,000
11474211 Optimized high speed lidar mirror design Blaise Gassend, David G. Duff 2022-10-18 $56,365,000
D944667 Sensor housing YooJung Ahn, David G. Duff, Joshua Newby, Candace Marbury 2022-03-01
11209276 Devices and methods for a sensor platform of a vehicle Craig Lewin Robinson, John Tisdale, Seth Michael LaForge 2021-12-28 $102,088,000
11152675 Communication system for LIDAR sensors used in a vehicle comprising a rotary joint with a bearing waveguide for coupling signals with communication chips Zhe Li, Jamal Izadian, Pierre-Yves Droz, Min Wang, Samuel William Lenius +1 more 2021-10-19 $89,918,000
10931080 Laser package with high precision lens Matthew E. Last 2021-02-23 $74,200,000
10870391 Devices and methods for optical communication in a rotary platform Jeffrey L. Rogers 2020-12-22 $79,535,000
10855129 Printed circuit board layout Samuel William Lenius, Alexander Zbrozek 2020-12-01 $55,046,000
10766463 Control for passive wiper system Graham Doorley, Peter Avram 2020-09-08 $43,773,000