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Daniel Warren Mellinger, III — 27 Patents

Qualcomm: 22 patents #1,039 of 12,104Top 9%
LOLord: 4 patents #89 of 448Top 20%
UPUniversity of Pennsylvania: 1 patents #1,260 of 2,719Top 50%
Philadelphia, PA: #89 of 4,834 inventorsTop 2%
Pennsylvania: #2,173 of 74,527 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Daniel Warren Mellinger, III has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Qualcomm. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in December 2025. Daniel Warren Mellinger, III ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Daniel Warren Mellinger, III in Philadelphia, PA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2020.peak 92012: 1 patents20122015: 1 patents20152017: 2 patents20172018: 3 patents20182019: 3 patents20192020: 9 patents20202021: 2 patents20212022: 4 patents20222023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12488682 Message broadcasting for vehicles Stephen Marc Chaves, Paul Daniel Martin, Michael Joshua Shomin 2025-12-02
11807247 Methods and systems for managing interactions between vehicles with varying levels of autonomy John Anthony Dougherty, Jordan Scott Burklund, Kristen Wagner Cerase, Stephen Marc Chaves, Ross Eric Kessler +2 more 2023-11-07 $9,117,000
11531336 Systems and methods for automatically customizing operation of a robotic vehicle John Anthony Dougherty, Rizwan Ahmed, Stephen Marc Chaves, Aleksandr Kushleyev, Paul Daniel Martin +4 more 2022-12-20 $16,033,000
11449072 Intelligent and adaptive traffic control system Paul Daniel Martin, Jonathan Paul Davis, Michael Joshua Shomin, Stephen Marc Chaves, John Anthony Dougherty +5 more 2022-09-20 $17,935,000
11383722 Methods and systems for managing interactions between vehicles with varying levels of autonomy John Anthony Dougherty, Jordan Scott Burklund, Kristen Wagner Cerase, Stephen Marc Chaves, Ross Eric Kessler +2 more 2022-07-12 $24,430,000
11325606 Methods and systems for establishing cooperative driving engagements with vehicles having varying levels of autonomy John Anthony Dougherty, Jordan Scott Burklund, Kristen Wagner Cerase, Stephen Marc Chaves, Ross Eric Kessler +2 more 2022-05-10 $16,114,000
11188075 Controlling a robotic vehicle following flight controller signal loss Aleksandr Kushleyev, Paul Daniel Martin, Michael Joshua Shomin 2021-11-30 $28,994,000
11185207 Managing cleaning robot behavior Stephen Marc Chaves, Michael Joshua Shomin, Matthew Hyatt Turpin, John Anthony Dougherty, Ross Eric Kessler +2 more 2021-11-30 $28,994,000
10852364 Interference mitigation in magnetometers Aleksandr Kushleyev, Travis Van Schoyck 2020-12-01 $25,286,000
10838415 Systems and methods for automatically customizing operation of a robotic vehicle John Anthony Dougherty, Rizwan Ahmed, Stephen Marc Chaves, Aleksandr Kushleyev, Paul Daniel Martin +4 more 2020-11-17 $26,968,000
10803759 Adjustable object avoidance proximity threshold based on presence of propeller guard(s) Michael Franco Taveira 2020-10-13 $32,150,000
10783796 Collision management for a robotic vehicle Michael Joshua Shomin, Travis Van Schoyck, Ross Eric Kessler, John Anthony Dougherty, Jonathan Paul Davis +1 more 2020-09-22 $32,198,000
10778967 Systems and methods for improving performance of a robotic vehicle by managing on-board camera defects Travis Van Schoyck, Michael Joshua Shomin, Jonathan Paul Davis, Ross Eric Kessler, Michael Franco Taveira 2020-09-15 $17,370,000
10717435 Adjustable object avoidance proximity threshold based on classification of detected objects Michael Franco Taveira 2020-07-21 $17,268,000
10720070 Adjustable object avoidance proximity threshold of a robotic vehicle based on presence of detected payload(s) Michael Franco Taveira 2020-07-21 $17,268,000
10719705 Adjustable object avoidance proximity threshold based on predictability of the environment Michael Franco Taveira 2020-07-21 $17,268,000
10636314 Adjusting flight parameters of an aerial robotic vehicle based on presence of propeller guard(s) Michael Franco Taveira 2020-04-28 $12,560,000
10472090 Environmentally aware status LEDs for use in drones Ross Eric Kessler, Jonathan Paul Davis, John Anthony Dougherty, Charles Wheeler Sweet, III, Donald Bolden Hutson 2019-11-12 $13,047,000
10392102 Helicopter vibration control system and circular force generation systems for canceling vibrations Mark R. Jolly, Russell E. Alteri, Askari Badre-Alam, Douglas E. Ivers, Douglas Swanson +1 more 2019-08-27
10386189 Utilizing processing units to control temperature Aleksandr Kushleyev, Rizwan Ahmed, Matthew Hyatt Turpin 2019-08-20 $20,844,000
10041792 Pressure tap structures for barometric altimeters for unmanned aerial vehicles Travis Van Schoyck, Jonathan Paul Davis 2018-08-07 $11,386,000
10017237 Unmanned aerial vehicle structures and methods Donald Bolden Hutson, Clayton Dumstorff, Jonathan Paul Davis, Paul Ferrell, Charles Wheeler Sweet, III +3 more 2018-07-10 $10,045,000
9977434 Automatic tracking mode for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle 2018-05-22 $9,624,000
9776712 Helicopter vibration control system and circular force generation systems for canceling vibrations Mark R. Jolly, Russell E. Altieri, Askari Badre-Alam, Douglas E. Ivers, Doug A. Swanson +1 more 2017-10-03
9599993 Three-dimensional manipulation of teams of quadrotors Vijay Kumar, Aleksandr Kushleyev 2017-03-21