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Samuel William Lenius — 57 Patents

Google: 57 patents #139 of 22,993Top 1%
Mountain View, CA: #188 of 11,022 inventorsTop 2%
California: #6,412 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #42,642 of 4,157,543Top 2%
57 Patents All Time
Samuel William Lenius has been granted 57 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2015 and the most recent in October 2025. Samuel William Lenius ranks #42,642 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.0%). Patent records list Samuel William Lenius in Mountain View, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 57 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12436536 Light steering device with a plurality of beam-steering optics Drew Ulrich, Pierre-Yves Droz 2025-10-07
12416719 Waveguide apparatus with high speed dual channel wireless contactless rotary joint Zhe Li, Jamal Izadian, Pierre-Yves Droz, Min Wang, Paul Karplus +1 more 2025-09-16
12352900 Light detection and ranging (lidar) device having a light-guide manifold Pierre-Yves Droz, Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Augusto Tazzoli, David Hutchison, David Schleuning +14 more 2025-07-08
12332379 Vehicle with multiple light detection and ranging devices (LIDARs) Gaetan Pennecot, Zachary Morriss, Dorel Ionut Iordache, Daniel Gruver, Pierre-Yves Droz +7 more 2025-06-17
12248097 Multiplexed multichannel photodetector Pierre-Yves Droz 2025-03-11
12210073 Motor and rotary transformer with shared magnetic core Paul Karplus 2025-01-28
12196884 Long range steerable LIDAR system Pierre-Yves Droz, Gaetan Pennecot, Anthony Levandowski, Drew Ulrich, Zach Morriss +5 more 2025-01-14
12187141 Contactless electrical coupling for a rotatable LIDAR device Pierre-Yves Droz 2025-01-07
11965988 Multiplexed multichannel photodetector Pierre-Yves Droz 2024-04-23 $109,442,000
11923658 Laser diode firing system Pierre-Yves Droz 2024-03-05 $62,822,000
11916273 Broadband rotary joint for millimeter wave transmission Zhe Li, Chia-Hung Lin, Craig Moriwaki, William Martin Peters, Jr., Kelvin Kwong +2 more 2024-02-27 $97,983,000
11860249 Motor and rotary transformer with shared magnetic core Paul Karplus 2024-01-02 $82,860,000
11780339 Contactless electrical coupling for a rotatable LIDAR device Pierre-Yves Droz 2023-10-10 $80,003,000
11726488 Light steering device with a plurality of beam-steering optics Drew Ulrich, Pierre-Yves Droz 2023-08-15 $71,308,000
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, Paul Karplus +1 more 2023-06-27 $76,505,000
11669101 Light steering device with an array of oscillating reflective slats Drew Ulrich, Pierre-Yves Droz 2023-06-06 $80,471,000
11536845 LIDAR systems with multi-faceted mirrors Blaise Gassend, Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Ryan T. Davis 2022-12-27 $61,722,000
11506731 Motor and rotary transformer with shared magnetic core Paul Karplus 2022-11-22 $91,879,000
11303096 Laser diode firing system Pierre-Yves Droz 2022-04-12 $92,398,000
RE48961 Vehicle with multiple light detection and ranging devices (LIDARs) Daniel Gruver, Pierre-Yves Droz, Gaetan Pennecot, Anthony Levandowski, Drew Ulrich +7 more 2022-03-08
11269064 Multiplexed multichannel photodetector Pierre-Yves Droz 2022-03-08 $89,266,000
11194340 Light steering device with an array of oscillating reflective slats Drew Ulrich, Pierre-Yves Droz 2021-12-07 $91,757,000
11180037 Contactless electrical coupling for a rotatable LIDAR device Pierre-Yves Droz 2021-11-23 $140,376,000
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, Paul Karplus +1 more 2021-10-19 $89,918,000
11054505 Long range steerable LIDAR system Pierre-Yves Droz, Gaetan Pennecot, Anthony Levandowski, Drew Ulrich, Zach Morriss +5 more 2021-07-06 $92,959,000