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Inventor

Sebastian Thrun

Inventor
Los Altos Hills, CA, US

Overview

72→
Patents
2011–2021
Patent span
Physics
Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 72 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Fprimary
G06FElectric digital data processing11%
G06TImage data processing or generation, in general9%
B60WConjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function8%
G05DSystems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables8%
G01CMeasuring distances, levels or bearings7%
G01SRadio direction-finding6%
B62DMotor vehicles5%
B60KArrangement or mounting of propulsion units or of transmissions in vehicles4%
B64CAeroplanes4%
B64DEquipment for fitting in or to aircraft4%
PatentTitleYear
11,111,030Reactionless free-spinning motor with dual propellers202111,106,221Multicopter with self-adjusting rotors202111,010,998Systems and methods for vehicles with limited destination ability202110,946,964Modular personal transportation system202110,952,285Automatic heating system and method202110,926,654Electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle with wind turbine202110,913,547Charging station for self-balancing multicopter202110,846,635Dispatching autonomous vehicles based on route cost202010,843,708User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system202010,839,175Decoding a custom cooking program202010,773,799Vertically-tethered multicopters202010,768,619User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system202010,703,480Modular personal transportation system202010,532,815Two vehicle transportation system202010,493,863Charge related processing for a personal transportation system with removable battery201910,422,849Method and system for signal-based localization201910,331,102Encoding a custom cooking program201910,293,838User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system201910,120,553User interface and controller for a heating system201810,120,379User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system201810,101,035Custom cooking program based on feedback201810,093,324User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system201810,082,789User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system201810,067,559Graphical interface having adjustable borders201810,070,485Automatic heating system and method201810,061,285Encoding a custom cooking program201810,009,963Decoding a custom cooking program20189,990,736Robust anytime tracking combining 3D shape, color, and motion with annealed dynamic histograms20189,915,722'Method and system for signal-based localization'20189,857,868'Method and system for ergonomic touch-free interface'20189,710,925'Robust anytime tracking combining 3D shape, color, and motion with annealed dynamic histograms'20179,582,907'User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system'20179,519,287'User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system'20169,369,679'System and process for projecting location-referenced panoramic images into a 3-D environment model and rendering panoramic images from arbitrary viewpoints within the 3-D environment model'20169,361,943'System and method for tagging objects in a panoramic video and associating functions and indexing panoramic images with same'20169,291,461'Location correction'20169,201,133'Method and system for signal-based localization'20159,152,297'Interactive content creation system'20159,134,729'User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system'20159,132,840'User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system'20159,087,241'Intelligent part identification for use with scene characterization or motion capture'20159,063,573'Method and system for touch-free control of devices'20158,994,790'Motion capture with low input data constraints'20158,976,085'Wearable device with input and output structures'20158,873,147'Chord authentication via a multi-touch interface'20148,825,261'User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system'20148,825,080'Predicting geographic population density'20148,818,610'User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system'20148,738,213'User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system'20148,712,104'Traffic signal mapping and detection'20148,706,342'User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system'20148,670,891'User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system'20148,630,897'Transportation-aware physical advertising conversions'20148,611,670'Intelligent part identification for use with scene characterization or motion capture'20138,612,135'Method and apparatus to localize an autonomous vehicle using convolution'20138,583,400'Indoor localization of mobile devices'20138,559,673'Traffic signal mapping and detection'20138,548,738'Constructing paths based on a particle model'20138,478,289'Predicting geographic population density'20138,433,470'User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system'20138,392,117'Using topological structure for path planning in semi-structured environments'20138,392,064'Systems, methods and devices for adaptive steering control of automotive vehicles'20138,384,714'Systems, methods and devices for motion capture using video imaging'20138,384,776'Detection of topological structure from sensor data with application to autonomous driving in semi-structured environments'20138,386,422'Using constructed paths to supplement map data'20138,352,110'User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system'20138,346,426'User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system'20138,260,482'User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system'20128,139,067'Shape completion, animation and marker-less motion capture of people, animals or characters'20128,074,241'Process for displaying and navigating panoramic video, and method and user interface for streaming panoramic video and images between a server and browser-based client application'20118,060,271'Detecting principal directions of unknown environments'20117,961,934'Probable reconstruction of surfaces in occluded regions by computed symmetry'2011

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

2011–2021Patents assigned to THRUN SEBASTIAN (31)· patent assignee history
2011–2019Patents assigned to UNIV LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR (16)· patent assignee history
2011–2019Based in Stanford, CA, US· patent location history
2012–2017Patents assigned to GOOGLE INC (25)· patent assignee history
2012–2015Based in Palo Alto, CA, US· patent location history
2013–2021Based in Los Altos Hills, CA, US· patent location history
2014–2021Based in Los Altos, CA, US· patent location history
2018–2021Patents assigned to WAYMO LLC (8)· patent assignee history
2019–2021Patents assigned to KITTY HAWK CORP (9)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees
AssigneePatentsSpan
THRUN SEBASTIANself312011–2021
GOOGLE INC252012–2017
UNIV LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR162011–2019
KITTY HAWK CORP92019–2021
WAYMO LLC82018–2021
Locations
LocationPatentsSpan
Los Altos Hills, California, US302013–2021
Stanford, California, US202011–2019
Los Altos, California, US182014–2021
Palo Alto, California, US42012–2015