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John Drinkard — 15 Patents

OMOmron: 6 patents #499 of 3,089Top 20%
OTOmron Scientific Technologies: 4 patents #1 of 6Top 20%
STScientific Technologies: 4 patents #3 of 27Top 15%
San Ramon, CA: #289 of 2,140 inventorsTop 15%
California: #40,789 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
John Drinkard has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Omron. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in December 2025. John Drinkard ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list John Drinkard in San Ramon, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2003.peak 22002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 1 patents20042011: 2 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202024: 1 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12502779 Method and apparatus for improved sampling-based graph generation for online path planning by a robot Gaurav Misra, Akihiro Suzumura, Andres Rodriguez Campo, Sean Bailey 2025-12-23
12397424 Method and apparatus for online task planning and robot motion control Akihiro Suzumura, Gaurav Misra, Andres Rodriguez Campo, Kautilya Chenna, Sean Bailey 2025-08-26
12092476 Method and apparatus for updating an environment map used by robots for self-localization Karthik Mahesh Varadarajan 2024-09-17 $140,000
10841539 Method and apparatus for monitoring zones — 2020-11-17
10085001 Method and apparatus for detecting and mitigating mechanical misalignments in an optical system Takeshi Shoji, Ambrish Tyagi 2018-09-25
9712768 Method and apparatus for fault detection for imager decoder Yoshiharu Tani 2017-07-18
9532011 Method and apparatus for projective volume monitoring Ambrish Tyagi, Yoshiharu Tani, Koichi Kinoshita 2016-12-27
9501692 Method and apparatus for projective volume monitoring Ambrish Tyagi, Yoshiharu Tani, Koichi Kinoshita 2016-11-22
8947505 Method and apparatus for generating texture in a three-dimensional scene Ambrish Tyagi 2015-02-03
8018353 Method and apparatus for zone selection in area monitoring devices Fred Schleifer, Christopher Alan Dums, Alejandro Sanchez 2011-09-13
7965384 Clutter rejection in active object detection systems — 2011-06-21
6753776 Presence sensing system and method — 2004-06-22 $653,000
6665621 System and method for waveform processing Javier Cardona, Christopher Alan Dums 2003-12-16 $698,000
6587811 System and method for delay line testing Fred Schleifer, Christopher Alan Dums 2003-07-01 $1,408,000
6493653 Tapped delay line high speed register Ed Oltman, Galen Edgar Knode 2002-12-10 $1,542,000

Frequent Collaborators

Ambrish Tyagi4 shared
Christopher Alan Dums3 shared
Yoshiharu Tani3 shared
Sean Bailey2 shared
Koichi Kinoshita2 shared
Fred Schleifer2 shared

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