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David D. Needelman — 15 Patents

The Boeing: 13 patents #721 of 15,756Top 5%
HLHughes Electronics Limited: 2 patents #325 of 1,474Top 25%
Torrance, CA: #148 of 2,137 inventorsTop 7%
California: #40,789 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
David D. Needelman has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at The Boeing. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in August 2016. David D. Needelman ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list David D. Needelman in Torrance, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2007.peak 32001: 2 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents20032004: 1 patents20042006: 2 patents20062007: 3 patents20072008: 1 patents20082011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents20122016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9423255 System and method for mitigating an occurrence of a dry spot in a field of view of a star tracker Ryan Jirapong, Bradley Whitten Taylor, Patrick J. Moran, Michael G. Novean 2016-08-23 $22,373,000
8265804 Method and system for controlling a vehicle David S. Uetrecht, Tung-Ching Tsao 2012-09-11 $9,851,000
8019544 Real-time refinement method of spacecraft star tracker alignment estimates Rongsheng Li, Yeong-Wei A. Wu 2011-09-13 $5,450,000
7410130 Star-tracker-based attitude determination for spinning spacecraft H. Grant Wang, Arun Prakash 2008-08-12 $24,871,000
7310578 Fast access, low memory, pair catalog James P. Alstad, Rongsheng Li, Richard A. Fowell, Peter Lai, Yeong-Wei A. Wu 2007-12-18 $24,233,000
7228231 Multiple stayout zones for ground-based bright object exclusion Richard A. Fowell, Peter Lai, Yeong-Wei A. Wu, Rongsheng Li 2007-06-05 $36,056,000
7219014 Method and apparatus for real-time star exclusion from a database Rongsheng Li, Richard A. Fowell, Peter Lai, Yeong-Wei A. Wu, Bruce N. Eyerly +1 more 2007-05-15 $36,751,000
7136752 Method and apparatus for on-board autonomous pair catalog generation Rongsheng Li, Richard A. Fowell, Peter Lai, Yeong-Wei A. Wu 2006-11-14 $26,029,000
7062363 Refinement of spacecraft angular velocity and attitude estimates using star data Rongsheng Li, Yeong-Wei A. Wu 2006-06-13 $43,483,000
6766227 Attitude-acquisition methods and systems for controlled spacecraft attitude Yeong-Wei A. Wu, Rongsheng Li 2004-07-20 $21,409,000
6588708 Spacecraft methods and structures for acquiring and determining power-safe attitudes Grant Wang, Yeong-Wei A. Wu, Rongsheng Li 2003-07-08 $41,491,000
6512979 Lost-in-space stellar attitude acquisition using multiple star trackers Yeong-Wei A. Wu, Rongsheng Li, William L. Burkett, Jr. 2003-01-28 $45,885,000
6470270 Lost-in-space stellar attitude acquisition using multiple star trackers Yeong-Wei A. Wu, Rongsheng Li, William L. Burkett, Jr. 2002-10-22 $61,380,000
6289268 Attitude determination system and method Garry Didinsky, Arunkumar P. Nayak, Rongsheng Li, Yeong-Wei A. Wu, Jeffrey A. Kurland 2001-09-11
6266616 Confused-in-space stellar attitude acquisition using multiple star trackers — 2001-07-24

Frequent Collaborators

Rongsheng Li11 shared
Yeong-Wei A. Wu11 shared
Peter Lai4 shared
Richard A. Fowell4 shared
William L. Burkett, Jr.2 shared
Arunkumar P. Nayak1 shared

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