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Stefan Heck — 21 Patents

NANauto: 19 patents #1 of 30Top 4%
Palo Alto, CA: #1,168 of 9,675 inventorsTop 15%
California: #27,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Stefan Heck has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Nauto. The first was granted in 2018 and the most recent in August 2025. Stefan Heck ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Stefan Heck in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2018 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2019.peak 52018: 2 patents20182019: 5 patents20192020: 3 patents20202021: 3 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 1 patents20232024: 2 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12400269 System and method for adverse vehicle event determination Alex Thompson, Shobana Sankaran, Charles Hornbaker 2025-08-26
12263837 Devices and methods for assisting operation of vehicles based on situational assessment fusing expoential risks (safer) Benjamin Oren Alpert, Tahmida Binte Mahmud, Mohammad Saad Billah, Ilan Hornstein 2025-04-01
12187270 Devices and methods for predicting intersection violations and/or collisions Benjamin Oren Alpert, Tahmida Binte Mahmud, Alexander Dion Wu, Piyush Chandra, Jeremy Marschke +3 more 2025-01-07
12145578 Devices and methods for assisting operation of vehicles based on situational assessment fusing expoential risks (SAFER) Benjamin Oren Alpert, Tahmida Binte Mahmud, Mohammad Saad Billah, Ilan Hornstein 2024-11-19
11945435 Devices and methods for predicting collisions and/or intersection violations Benjamin Oren Alpert, Tahmida Binte Mahmud, Alexander Dion Wu, Piyush Chandra, Jeremy Marschke +3 more 2024-04-02
11580756 System and method for determining probability that a vehicle driver is associated with a driver identifier Michael Eamonn Gleeson-May, Frederick Soo 2023-02-14
11485284 System and method for driver distraction determination Ludmila Levkova, Benjamin Oren Alpert, Ravi Kumar Satzoda, Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Vivek Sekar 2022-11-01
11392131 Method for determining driving policy Ravi Kumar Satzoda, Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Ludmila Levkova 2022-07-19
11164259 System and method for adverse vehicle event determination Alex Thompson, Shobana Sankaran, Charles Hornbaker 2021-11-02
11023751 Systems and methods for safe route determination Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Charles Hornbaker 2021-06-01
11017479 System and method for adverse vehicle event determination Alex Thompson, Shobana Sankaran, Charles Hornbaker 2021-05-25
10769456 Systems and methods for near-crash determination Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Ravi Kumar Satzoda 2020-09-08
10733460 Systems and methods for safe route determination Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Charles Hornbaker 2020-08-04
10703268 System and method for driver distraction determination Ludmila Levkova, Benjamin Oren Alpert, Ravi Kumar Satzoda, Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Vivek Sekar 2020-07-07
10503990 System and method for determining probability that a vehicle driver is associated with a driver identifier Michael Eamonn Gleeson-May, Frederick Soo 2019-12-10
10489222 Distributed computing resource management Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Rohit Ramesh Saboo 2019-11-26
10453150 System and method for adverse vehicle event determination Alex Thompson, Shobana Sankaran, Charles Hornbaker 2019-10-22
10268909 Systems and methods for near-crash determination Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Ravi Kumar Satzoda 2019-04-23
10246014 System and method for driver distraction determination Ludmila Levkova, Benjamin Oren Alpert, Ravi Kumar Satzoda, Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Vivek Sekar 2019-04-02
10133942 System and method for automatic driver identification Michael Eamonn Gleeson-May, Frederick Soo 2018-11-20
9928432 Systems and methods for near-crash determination Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Ravi Kumar Satzoda 2018-03-27