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John Charles Curlander — 12 Patents

Microsoft: 11 patents #3,886 of 40,388Top 10%
NASA: 1 patents #1,837 of 3,881Top 50%
Pasadena, CA: #301 of 3,212 inventorsTop 10%
California: #51,404 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
John Charles Curlander has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in October 2022. John Charles Curlander ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list John Charles Curlander in Pasadena, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2012.peak 31995: 1 patents19952011: 1 patents20112012: 3 patents20122013: 2 patents20132014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents20152020: 1 patents20202022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11477374 Three dimensional image capture system for imaging building facades using a digital camera, a near-infrared camera, and laser range finder Michael Kroepfl, Michael Gruber, Martin Ponticelli, Stephen L. Lawler, Joachim Bauer +5 more 2022-10-18 $176,053,000
10715724 Vehicle-mounted sensor system that includes cameras and laser measurement systems Michael Kroepfl, Michael Gruber, Martin Ponticelli, Stephen L. Lawler, Joachim Bauer +5 more 2020-07-14 $94,985,000
9091755 Three dimensional image capture system for imaging building facades using a digital camera, near-infrared camera, and laser range finder Michael Kroepfl, Michael Gruber, Martin Ponticelli, Stephen L. Lawler, Joachim Bauer +5 more 2015-07-28 $31,589,000
8675122 Determining exposure time in a digital camera Michael Kroepfl, Martin Ponticelli, Hannes Hegenbarth, Gur Kimchi 2014-03-18 $35,700,000
8644113 Sound-based positioning Michael Riley Harrell, William Hayden Connor, Marzban R. Palsetia, Heinrich Frick, Jesse Wright +1 more 2014-02-04 $20,363,000
8565783 Path progression matching for indoor positioning systems Zongxiang Yang, Henry Roger Frick, William B. Gail, Sharad Agarwal, Janani Sriram 2013-10-22 $34,472,000
8428088 Synchronization of multiple data sources to a common time base Michael Kroepfl, Gerhard Neuhold, Stefan Bernögger, Martin Ponticelli, Joachim Pehserl +1 more 2013-04-23 $18,172,000
8284250 Determining trigger rate for a digital camera Michael Kroepfl, Joachim Bauer, Gerhard Neuhold, Stefan Bernögger, Gur Kimchi 2012-10-09 $19,647,000
8244431 Determining velocity using multiple sensors Michael Kroepfl, Joachim Pehserl, Joachim Bauer, Stephen L. Lawler, Gur Kimchi 2012-08-14 $12,366,000
8154435 Stability monitoring using synthetic aperture radar Todd A. Pett, John D. Paden, Lawrence Brewster, Malcolm William Ashby, II, Xiaoqing Wu 2012-04-10 $17,388,000
7974314 Synchronization of multiple data source to a common time base Michael Kroepfl, Gerhard Neuhold, Stefan Bernögger, Martin Ponticelli, Joachim Pehserl +1 more 2011-07-05 $15,908,000
5477221 Pipeline synthetic aperture radar data compression utilizing systolic binary tree-searched architecture for vector quantization Chi-Yung Chang, Wai-Chi Fang 1995-12-19