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David Nister — 90 Patents

NVIDIA: 75 patents #29 of 7,811Top 1%
Ericsson: 6 patents #1,926 of 9,909Top 20%
SASarnoff: 3 patents #150 of 471Top 35%
LCL-3 Communications: 1 patents #229 of 507Top 50%
UKUniversity Of Kentucky: 1 patents #424 of 1,057Top 45%
Bellevue, WA: #66 of 6,950 inventorsTop 1%
Washington: #349 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #17,911 of 4,157,543Top 1%
90 Patents All Time
David Nister has been granted 90 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in December 2025. David Nister ranks #17,911 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.43%). Patent records list David Nister in Bellevue, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 90 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12488235 Ground truth data generation for deep neural network perception in autonomous driving applications Tilman Wekel, Joachim Pehserl, Jacob Meyer, Jake Guza, Anton Mitrokhin +3 more 2025-12-02
12434703 Intersection detection and classification in autonomous machine applications Sayed Mehdi Sajjadi Mohammadabadi, Berta Rodriguez Hervas, Hang Dou, Igor Tryndin, MINGYO PARK +3 more 2025-10-07
12437412 Deep neural network for segmentation of road scenes and animate object instances for autonomous driving applications Ke Chen, Nikolai Smolyanskiy, Alexey Kamenev, Ryan Oldja, Tilman Wekel +4 more 2025-10-07
12416714 Sensor data point cloud generation for map creation and localization for autonomous systems and applications Amir Akbarzadeh, Andrew Carley, Birgit Henke, Si Lu, Ivana Stojanovic +4 more 2025-09-16
12412278 Object detection using skewed polygons suitable for parking space detection Dongwoo Lee, Junghyun Kwon, Sangmin Oh, Wenchao Zheng, Hae-Jong Seo +1 more 2025-09-09
12399253 Deep neural network for detecting obstacle instances using radar sensors in autonomous machine applications Alexander Popov, Nikolai Smolyanskiy, Ryan Oldja, Shane Murray, Tilman Wekel +3 more 2025-08-26
12399086 Simulating realistic test data from transformed real-world sensor data for autonomous machine Jesse Hong, Urs Muller, Bernhard Firner, Zongyi Yang, Joyjit Daw +2 more 2025-08-26
12353213 Safety procedure analysis for obstacle avoidance in autonomous vehicles Hon Leung Lee, Julia Ng, Yizhou Wang 2025-07-08
12346119 Obstacle to path assignment and performance of control operations based on assignment for autonomous systems and applications Neeraj Sajjan, Mehmet K. Kocamaz, Junghyun Kwon, Sangmin Oh, Minwoo Park 2025-07-01
12299892 Intersection region detection and classification for autonomous machine applications Trung Pham, Berta Rodriguez Hervas, Minwoo Park, Neda Cvijetic 2025-05-13
12292495 Sensor data based map creation for autonomous systems and applications Amir Akbarzadeh, Andrew Carley, Birgit Henke, Si Lu, Ivana Stojanovic +4 more 2025-05-06
12286115 Three-dimensional intersection structure prediction for autonomous driving applications Trung Pham, Berta Rodriguez Hervas, Minwoo Park, Neda Cvijetic 2025-04-29
12269488 End-to-end evaluation of perception systems for autonomous systems and applications Cheng-Chieh Yang, Yue Wu 2025-04-08
12248319 Regression-based line detection for autonomous driving machines Minwoo Park, Xiaolin Lin, Hae-Jong Seo, Neda Cvijetic 2025-03-11
12249163 Lane mask generation for autonomous machine Josh Abbott, Miguel Sainz Serra, Zhaoting Ye 2025-03-11
12202518 Safety decomposition architecture for autonomous machine applications Julia Ng, Sachin Pullaikudi Veedu, Hanne Buur, Hans Jonas Nilsson, Hon Leung Lee +2 more 2025-01-21
12189018 Sensor data based map creation and localization for autonomous systems and applications Amir Akbarzadeh, Andrew Carley, Birgit Henke, Si Lu, Ivana Stojanovic +5 more 2025-01-07
12179795 Using arrival times and safety procedures in motion planning trajectories for autonomous vehicles Birgit Henke, Julia Ng 2024-12-31 $3,661,312,000
12164059 Top-down object detection from LiDAR point clouds Nikolai Smolyanskiy, Ryan Oldja, Ke Chen, Alexander Popov, Joachim Pehserl +4 more 2024-12-10 $7,443,251,000
12159417 Motion-based object detection for autonomous systems and applications Soohwan Kim, Yue Wu, Minwoo Park, Cheng-Chieh Yang 2024-12-03 $4,926,866,000
12131556 Object fence generation for lane assignment in autonomous machine applications Josh Abbott, Miguel Sainz Serra, Zhaoting Ye 2024-10-29 $5,178,866,000
12093824 Distance to obstacle detection in autonomous machine applications Yilin Yang, Bala Siva Sashank Jujjavarapu, Pekka Janis, Zhaoting Ye, Sangmin Oh +3 more 2024-09-17 $3,873,026,000
12080078 Multi-view deep neural network for LiDAR perception Nikolai Smolyanskiy, Ryan Oldja, Ke Chen, Alexander Popov, Joachim Pehserl +4 more 2024-09-03
12077190 Efficient safety aware path selection and planning for autonomous machine applications Julia Ng, Zhenyi Zhang, Yizhou Wang 2024-09-03 $4,747,919,000
12072443 Segmentation of lidar range images Nikolai Smolyanskiy, Ryan Oldja, Ke Chen, Alexander Popov, Joachim Pehserl +4 more 2024-08-27