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David Patrick Rice — 21 Patents

UAUatc: 11 patents #28 of 369Top 8%
Uber Technologies: 7 patents #100 of 909Top 15%
AOAurora Operations: 1 patents #126 of 269Top 50%
Wexford, PA: #28 of 413 inventorsTop 7%
Pennsylvania: #3,197 of 74,527 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
David Patrick Rice has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Uatc. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in October 2025. David Patrick Rice ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list David Patrick Rice in Wexford, PA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2012 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2018.peak 52012: 1 patents20122016: 1 patents20162018: 5 patents20182019: 4 patents20192020: 3 patents20202021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents20222023: 2 patents20232025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12437636 Power and thermal management systems and methods for autonomous vehicles Scott Boehmke 2025-10-07
12214755 Autonomous vehicle sensor cleaning system Wesly Mason Rice, Nikolaus Wittenstein, Zhizhuo Jin, Paul Smith, Sean Joseph Kennelly +1 more 2025-02-04
11842639 Power and thermal management systems and methods for autonomous vehicles Scott Boehmke 2023-12-12
11801808 Autonomous vehicle sensor cleaning system Wesly Mason Rice, Nikolaus Wittenstein, Zhizhuo Jin, Paul Smith, Sean Joseph Kennelly +1 more 2023-10-31
11430331 Power and thermal management systems and methods for autonomous vehicles Scott Boehmke 2022-08-30
11195353 Methods, devices, and systems for communicating autonomous-vehicle status Molly Castle Nix, Sean Chin, Eric J. Hanson, Philipp Haban, Richard Donnelly +1 more 2021-12-07
10884271 Lens masking system for a vehicle Eric Meyhofer 2021-01-05
10857980 Autonomous vehicle sensor cleaning system Wesly Mason Rice, Nikolaus Wittenstein, Zhizhuo Jin, Paul Smith, Sean Joseph Kennelly +1 more 2020-12-08
10730365 Systems and methods for cooling vehicle systems of an autonomous vehicle — 2020-08-04
10726379 Last mile delivery systems and methods using a combination of autonomous launch and delivery vehicles Richard Donnelly, James Lee Epifano, Jacob Fischer, Christopher Matthew D'Eramo 2020-07-28
10518754 Autonomous vehicle sensor cleaning system Wesly Mason Rice, Nikolaus Wittenstein, Zhizhuo Jin, Paul Smith, Sean Joseph Kennelly +1 more 2019-12-31
10481652 Modular vehicle computing system cooling systems Thomas J. Watson, John W. Zinn, Robert H. Doll, Declan Seamus Kelly 2019-11-19
10479376 Dynamic sensor selection for self-driving vehicles Eric Meyhofer, Scott Boehmke, Carl Wellington 2019-11-19
10394345 Lidar display systems and methods Richard Donnelly, Philipp Haban, Thomas J. Watson 2019-08-27 $94,278,000
10099723 Integrated clutch steering system Eric Meyhofer 2018-10-16
10077007 Sidepod stereo camera system for an autonomous vehicle Eric Meyhofer 2018-09-18
10048696 Intelligent lens masking system for an autonomous vehicle Eric Meyhofer 2018-08-14
9904375 LIDAR display systems and methods Richard Donnelly, Philipp Haban, Thomas J. Watson 2018-02-27
9855816 Thermal reduction system for an automated vehicle Eric Meyhofer 2018-01-02
9481393 Integrated clutch steering system Eric Meyerhoffer 2016-11-01
8296193 Supplier dynamic reference systems and methods — 2012-10-23

Frequent Collaborators

Eric Meyhofer6 shared
Sean Joseph Kennelly4 shared
Wesly Mason Rice4 shared
Scott Boehmke4 shared
Zhizhuo Jin4 shared
Nikolaus Wittenstein4 shared

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