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Simon Verghese — 52 Patents

Google: 28 patents #600 of 22,993Top 3%
WIWitricity: 17 patents #17 of 128Top 15%
MIT: 7 patents #613 of 9,367Top 7%
Mountain View, CA: #225 of 11,022 inventorsTop 3%
California: #7,530 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #50,240 of 4,157,543Top 2%
52 Patents All Time
Simon Verghese has been granted 52 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in October 2025. Simon Verghese ranks #50,240 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Simon Verghese in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2019.peak 71999: 1 patents19992002: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 4 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 7 patents20192020: 6 patents2021: 6 patents20212022: 3 patents2023: 5 patents20232024: 7 patents2025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 52 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12453205 Controlling detection time in photodetectors Caner Onal, Pierre-Yves Droz 2025-10-21
12439003 Real-time adjustment of vehicle sensor field of view volume Alexander P. McCauley 2025-10-07
12399262 Methods and systems for protecting a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device Pierre-Yves Droz, Mark Alexander Shand 2025-08-26
12339404 Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device with an off-axis receiver Pierre-Yves Droz 2025-06-24
12149868 Rotating LIDAR with co-aligned imager Pierre-Yves Droz, Brendan Hermalyn 2024-11-19 $89,094,000
12147000 Programmable SiPM arrays Caner Onal, Pierre-Yves Droz 2024-11-19 $89,094,000
12120463 Adjusting vehicle sensor field of view volume Alexander P. McCauley 2024-10-15 $100,699,000
12032097 Hybrid time-of-flight and imager module Caner Onal, David Schleuning, Brendan Hermalyn, Alex McCauley, Brandyn White +1 more 2024-07-09 $110,555,000
11973154 Controlling detection time in photodetectors Caner Onal, Pierre-Yves Droz 2024-04-30 $141,344,000
11922829 Visual communication system Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Pierre-Yves Droz 2024-03-05 $62,822,000
11906671 Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device with an off-axis receiver Pierre-Yves Droz 2024-02-20 $78,256,000
11838689 Rotating LIDAR with co-aligned imager Pierre-Yves Droz, Brendan Hermalyn 2023-12-05 $99,298,000
11671564 Adjusting vehicle sensor field of view volume Alexander P. McCauley 2023-06-06 $80,471,000
11614523 Methods and systems for protecting a light detection and ranging (lidar) device Pierre-Yves Droz, Mark Alexander Shand 2023-03-28 $126,871,000
11609313 Hybrid time-of-flight and imager module Caner Onal, David Schleuning, Brendan Hermalyn, Alex McCauley, Brandyn White +1 more 2023-03-21 $89,540,000
11594650 Controlling detection time in photodetectors Caner Onal, Pierre-Yves Droz 2023-02-28 $65,971,000
11470284 Rotating LIDAR with co-aligned imager Pierre-Yves Droz, Brendan Hermalyn 2022-10-11 $77,940,000
11353588 Time-of-flight sensor with structured light illuminator Caner Onal, David Schleuning, Brendan Hermalyn, Alex McCauley, Brandyn White +1 more 2022-06-07 $55,611,000
11222556 Visual communication system Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Pierre-Yves Droz 2022-01-11 $97,719,000
11178348 Thermal imaging for self-driving cars Alexander P. McCauley, Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Brandyn White 2021-11-16 $125,303,000
11175562 Methods and systems for optical beam steering Scott A. Skirlo, Cheryl Marie SORACE-AGASKAR, Marin Soljacic, Jeffrey S. Herd, Paul William Juodawlkis +3 more 2021-11-16
11131781 Programmable SiPM arrays Caner Onal, Pierre-Yves Droz 2021-09-28 $151,610,000
11097618 Reconfigurable control architectures and algorithms for electric vehicle wireless energy transfer systems Morris P. Kesler, Katherine L. Hall, Herbert Toby Lou, Ron Fiorello 2021-08-24
10971645 Controlling detection time in photodetectors Caner Onal, Pierre-Yves Droz 2021-04-06 $85,884,000
10951864 Rotating LIDAR with co-aligned imager Pierre-Yves Droz, Brendan Hermalyn 2021-03-16 $65,644,000