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Ralph Hamilton Shepard — 43 Patents

Google: 40 patents #297 of 22,993Top 2%
MIT: 2 patents #2,550 of 9,367Top 30%
RTX (Raytheon): 1 patents #8,290 of 15,912Top 55%
Menlo Park, CA: #155 of 3,774 inventorsTop 5%
California: #10,282 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #69,380 of 4,157,543Top 2%
43 Patents All Time
Ralph Hamilton Shepard has been granted 43 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in December 2025. Ralph Hamilton Shepard ranks #69,380 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Ralph Hamilton Shepard in Menlo Park, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 43 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12510633 LIDAR with co-aligned transmit and receive paths Pierre-Yves Droz, David Hutchison, Nathaniel Golshan 2025-12-30
12477205 Foveated imager for automotive applications Joseph Patrick Warga, Lucian Ion 2025-11-18
12461206 LIDAR receiver using a waveguide and an aperture Pierre-Yves Droz, David Hutchison 2025-11-04
12449669 LIDAR transmitter and receiver optics Blaise Gassend, Pierre-Yves Droz 2025-10-21
12352900 Light detection and ranging (lidar) device having a light-guide manifold Pierre-Yves Droz, Augusto Tazzoli, David Hutchison, David Schleuning, Nathaniel Golshan +14 more 2025-07-08
12210207 Lens retainer ring with compliant element Matthew E. Last, John Henrie, Chandra Kakani, Drew Ulrich 2025-01-28
12164026 Waveguide diffusers for LIDARs Pierre-Yves Droz, David Hutchison, James Dunphy, Nathaniel Golshan 2024-12-10 $140,382,000
12143734 Enhanced depth of focus cameras using variable apertures and pixel binning Shashank Sharma 2024-11-12 $95,442,000
12135391 Self-driving sensor system Yi-Hui Bruce-Wen, YooJung Ahn, Jared S. Gross, Joshua Newby, Jerry Chen +1 more 2024-11-05 $164,877,000
12038540 Window occlusion imager near focal plane Pierre-Yves Droz, Matthew E. Last, Bryce Remesch 2024-07-16 $98,172,000
12032101 Calibration system for light detection and ranging (lidar) devices Pierre-Yves Droz, Caner Onal, Hui Son 2024-07-09 $110,555,000
D1022746 Sensor housing David G. Duff, Blaise Gassend, Ryan T. Davis, John Massey, Pierre-Yves Droz 2024-04-16
11933647 Sensor region of interest selection based on multisensor data Nirav Dharia, Giulia Guidi, Vlad Cardei, Lucian Ion 2024-03-19 $87,363,000
11922829 Visual communication system Pierre-Yves Droz, Simon Verghese 2024-03-05 $62,822,000
11892572 Spatial light modulator retroreflector mitigation James Dunphy, David Schleuning 2024-02-06 $88,011,000
11867808 Waveguide diffusers for LIDARs Pierre-Yves Droz, David Hutchison, James Dunphy, Nathaniel Golshan 2024-01-09 $88,181,000
11802942 LIDAR with co-aligned transmit and receive paths Pierre-Yves Droz, David Hutchison, Nathaniel Golshan 2023-10-31 $122,489,000
11789123 Beam homogenization for occlusion resistance Blaise Gassend, Jason Watson 2023-10-17 $99,441,000
11752976 Capacitance-based foreign object debris sensor Felix Jose Alvarez Rivera 2023-09-12 $80,406,000
11747453 Calibration system for light detection and ranging (lidar) devices Pierre-Yves Droz, Caner Onal, Hui Son 2023-09-05 $82,703,000
11686823 LIDAR receiver using a waveguide and an aperture Pierre-Yves Droz, David Hutchison 2023-06-27 $76,505,000
11681031 Window occlusion imager near focal plane Pierre-Yves Droz, Matthew E. Last, Bryce Remesch 2023-06-20 $115,033,000
11606517 Enhanced depth of focus cameras using variable apertures and pixel binning Shashank Sharma 2023-03-14 $81,602,000
11561284 Parallax compensating spatial filters Blaise Gassend, Pierre-Yves Droz 2023-01-24 $84,171,000
11536845 LIDAR systems with multi-faceted mirrors Blaise Gassend, Samuel William Lenius, Ryan T. Davis 2022-12-27 $61,722,000