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Pierre-Yves Droz

Google: 220 patents #5 of 22,993Top 1%
Los Altos, CA: #15 of 3,651 inventorsTop 1%
California: #456 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #2,689 of 4,157,543Top 1%
220 Patents All Time

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Showing 1–25 of 220 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12416719 Waveguide apparatus with high speed dual channel wireless contactless rotary joint Zhe Li, Jamal Izadian, Min Wang, Samuel William Lenius, Paul Karplus +1 more 2025-09-16
12399262 Methods and systems for protecting a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device Simon Verghese, Mark Alexander Shand 2025-08-26
12372629 Multi-chip daisychain for output aggregation Pieter Kapsenberg, Sabareeshkumar Ravikumar 2025-07-29
12352895 Variable beam spacing, timing, and power for vehicle sensors Benjamin Ingram, Luke Wachter, Scott McCloskey, Blaise Gassend, Gaetan Pennecot 2025-07-08
12352900 Light detection and ranging (lidar) device having a light-guide manifold Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Augusto Tazzoli, David Hutchison, David Schleuning, Nathaniel Golshan +14 more 2025-07-08
12345815 Laser diode timing feedback using trace loop Gaetan Pennecot 2025-07-01
12339371 Multimode lidar receiver for coherent distance and velocity measurements Pablo Hopman 2025-06-24
12339404 Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device with an off-axis receiver Simon Verghese 2025-06-24
12332379 Vehicle with multiple light detection and ranging devices (LIDARs) Gaetan Pennecot, Zachary Morriss, Samuel William Lenius, Dorel Ionut Iordache, Daniel Gruver +7 more 2025-06-17
12298444 Range calibration of light detectors Luke Wachter 2025-05-13
12292502 Limitation of noise on light detectors using an aperture Blaise Gassend, Caner Onal, David Hutchison 2025-05-06
RE50338 Devices and methods for a rotating LIDAR platform with a shared transmit/receive path Gaetan Pennecot, Drew Ulrich, Daniel Gruver, Zachary Morriss, Anthony Levandowski 2025-03-18
12248067 Laser diode timing feedback using trace loop Gaetan Pennecot 2025-03-11
12248097 Multiplexed multichannel photodetector Samuel William Lenius 2025-03-11
12237948 Low-speed ring with controlled jitter Kaushik Kannan, Pieter Kapsenberg 2025-02-25
12204053 LIDAR pulse elongation Luke Wachter, Clayton Kunz 2025-01-21
12206406 Systems and methods for selecting light emitters for emitting light Augusto Tazzoli, Michael Marx 2025-01-21
12196884 Long range steerable LIDAR system Gaetan Pennecot, Anthony Levandowski, Drew Ulrich, Zach Morriss, Luke Wachter +5 more 2025-01-14
12187141 Contactless electrical coupling for a rotatable LIDAR device Samuel William Lenius 2025-01-07
12169252 Pulse energy plan for light detection and ranging (lidar) devices based on areas of interest and thermal budgets Caner Onal, Simon Ellgas, Augusto Tazzoli 2024-12-17
12169420 Timebase synchronization using pulsed signal injection David Sobel, Pieter Kaspenberg, Srikanth Muroor 2024-12-17
12164026 Waveguide diffusers for LIDARs David Hutchison, James Dunphy, Nathaniel Golshan, Ralph Hamilton Shepard 2024-12-10
12164031 Method and system for a threshold noise filter Kanika Sachdev, Caner Onal 2024-12-10
12155000 Monolithic silicon photomultiplier array Caner Onal, Nirav Dharia 2024-11-26
12147000 Programmable SiPM arrays Simon Verghese, Caner Onal 2024-11-19