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Vlad Cardei — 33 Patents

Google: 31 patents #498 of 22,993Top 3%
Apple: 1 patents #12,397 of 18,612Top 70%
Redwood City, CA: #233 of 5,061 inventorsTop 5%
California: #15,252 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #105,480 of 4,157,543Top 3%
33 Patents All Time
Vlad Cardei has been granted 33 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in July 2025. Vlad Cardei ranks #105,480 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.5%). Patent records list Vlad Cardei in Redwood City, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2024.peak 81999: 1 patents19992011: 1 patents20112018: 5 patents20182019: 1 patents20192021: 5 patents20212022: 5 patents20222023: 6 patents20232024: 8 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 33 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12360535 Autonomous vehicle having a thermal infrared camera with replaceable filter 2025-07-15
12147891 High bandwidth camera data transmission Lucian Ion 2024-11-19 $89,094,000
12078760 Multi-sensor synchronization measurement device Lucian Ion 2024-09-03 $114,566,000
12052519 Smart sensor scheduler Lucian Ion, Nirav Dharia 2024-07-30 $89,515,000
12014524 Low-light camera occlusion detection Carl Warren Craddock 2024-06-18 $142,199,000
12003894 Systems, methods, and apparatus for event detection Lucian Ion 2024-06-04 $108,596,000
11972342 Image sensor architecture Lucian Ion, Carl Warren Craddock 2024-04-30 $141,344,000
11962924 Smart sensor with region of interest capabilities Lucian Ion, Nirav Dharia 2024-04-16 $101,211,000
11933647 Sensor region of interest selection based on multisensor data Nirav Dharia, Giulia Guidi, Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Lucian Ion 2024-03-19 $87,363,000
11776163 Systems, methods, and apparatus for correcting desaturation of images with transformed color values by appling a matrix Carl Warren Craddock 2023-10-03 $89,266,000
11740636 Autonomous vehicle having a thermal infrared camera with replaceable filter 2023-08-29 $88,497,000
11700459 Smart sensor scheduler Lucian Ion, Nirav Dharia 2023-07-11 $137,541,000
11678076 Systems and methods for binning light detectors Nirav Dharia 2023-06-13 $78,657,000
11670005 Low-light camera occlusion detection Carl Warren Craddock 2023-06-06 $80,471,000
11665435 Systems and methods for automatic exposure of images Matthew Rinehart 2023-05-30 $97,352,000
11428550 Sensor region of interest selection based on multisensor data Nirav Dharia, Giulia Guidi, Ralph Hamilton Shepard, Lucian Ion 2022-08-30 $81,663,000
11310451 Smart sensor with region of interest capabilities Lucian Ion, Nirav Dharia 2022-04-19 $56,220,000
11284021 Smart sensor scheduler Lucian Ion, Nirav Dharia 2022-03-22 $92,998,000
11269066 Multi-sensor synchronization measurement device Lucian Ion 2022-03-08 $89,266,000
11265484 Systems and methods for automatic exposure of images Matthew Rinehart 2022-03-01 $81,407,000
11210768 Digital image auto exposure adjustment 2021-12-28 $102,088,000
11176652 High bandwidth camera data transmission Lucian Ion 2021-11-16 $125,303,000
11082643 Systems and methods for binning light detectors Nirav Dharia 2021-08-03 $104,518,000
11037968 Image sensor architecture Lucian Ion, Carl Warren Craddock 2021-06-15 $75,825,000
10891757 Low-light camera occlusion detection Carl Warren Craddock 2021-01-12 $52,130,000