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Sebastian Thrun — 83 Patents

Google: 36 patents #374 of 22,993Top 2%
KHKitty Hawk: 18 patents #9 of 87Top 15%
Stanford University: 16 patents #94 of 5,197Top 2%
Toyota: 3 patents #8,470 of 26,838Top 35%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
SLStrider Labs: 1 patents #3 of 9Top 35%
Los Altos Hills, CA: #30 of 812 inventorsTop 4%
California: #3,232 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #21,013 of 4,157,543Top 1%
83 Patents All Time
Sebastian Thrun has been granted 83 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in April 2025. Sebastian Thrun ranks #21,013 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.51%). Patent records list Sebastian Thrun in Los Altos Hills, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 83 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12271195 Systems and methods for vehicles with limited destination ability Dmitri A. Dolgov, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Christopher Paul Urmson, Nathaniel Fairfield, Anthony Levandowski 2025-04-08
12140968 Multicopter with self-adjusting rotors Benjamin Otto Berry 2024-11-12
12037136 Charging station for self-balancing multicopter Benjamin Otto Berry 2024-07-16
11951867 Charge related processing for a personal transportation system with removable battery Damon Vander Lind 2024-04-09
11814167 Vertically-tethered multicopters Damon Vander Lind 2023-11-14
11815911 Multicopter with self-adjusting rotors Benjamin Otto Berry 2023-11-14
11720101 Systems and methods for vehicles with limited destination ability Dmitri A. Dolgov, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Christopher Paul Urmson, Nathaniel Fairfield, Anthony Levandowski 2023-08-08 $88,828,000
11708172 Reactionless free-spinning motor with dual propellers Christopher Scott Saunders, Benjamin Otto Berry 2023-07-25
11485245 Electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle with wind turbine Benjamin Otto Berry 2022-11-01
11225165 Charge related processing for a personal transportation system with removable battery Damon Vander Lind 2022-01-18
11142318 Two vehicle transportation system Damon Vander Lind 2021-10-12
11111030 Reactionless free-spinning motor with dual propellers Christopher Scott Saunders, Benjamin Otto Berry 2021-09-07
11106221 Multicopter with self-adjusting rotors Benjamin Otto Berry 2021-08-31
11010998 Systems and methods for vehicles with limited destination ability Dmitri A. Dolgov, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Christopher Paul Urmson, Nathaniel Fairfield, Anthony Levandowski 2021-05-18 $91,712,000
10952285 Automatic heating system and method David St. Martin, Arash Kani 2021-03-16
10946964 Modular personal transportation system Damon Vander Lind 2021-03-16
10926654 Electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle with wind turbine Benjamin Otto Berry 2021-02-23
10913547 Charging station for self-balancing multicopter Benjamin Otto Berry 2021-02-09
10846635 Dispatching autonomous vehicles based on route cost Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Andrew Timothy Szybalski, Philip Nemec, Christopher Paul Urmson 2020-11-24 $44,247,000
10843708 User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system Andrew Timothy Szybalski, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Philip Nemec, Christopher Paul Urmson 2020-11-24 $44,247,000
10839175 Decoding a custom cooking program David St. Martin, Arash Kani 2020-11-17
10773799 Vertically-tethered multicopters Damon Vander Lind 2020-09-15
10768619 User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system Andrew Timothy Szybalski, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez, Christopher Paul Urmson, Philip Nemec 2020-09-08 $43,773,000
10703480 Modular personal transportation system Damon Vander Lind 2020-07-07
10532815 Two vehicle transportation system Damon Vander Lind 2020-01-14