Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Daniel Egnor

47Patents
12h-index
35Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 31, 2003 → Oct 19, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9342074B2 Systems and methods for transitioning control of an autonomous vehicle to a driver Performing Operations; Transporting 345 Active
US7788293B2 Generating structured information Physics 61 Active
US7523099B1 Category suggestions relating to a search Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 52 Active
US9195232B1 Methods and systems for compensating for common failures in fail operational systems Physics 51 Active
US9551992B1 Fall back trajectory systems for autonomous vehicles Performing Operations; Transporting 44 Active
US7606798B2 Methods and systems for improving a search ranking using location awareness Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US8565958B1 Removing extraneous objects from maps Physics 28 Active
US8078601B1 Determining unambiguous geographic references Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Active
US7822751B2 Scoring local search results based on location prominence Physics 22 Expired
US7483881B2 Determining unambiguous geographic references Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Active
US8046371B2 Scoring local search results based on location prominence Physics 20 Active
US7801897B2 Indexing documents according to geographical relevance Physics 12 Active
US8990210B2 Propagating information among web pages Physics 12 Active
US7716162B2 Classification of ambiguous geographic references Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US8885151B1 Condensing sensor data for transmission and processing Physics 9 Active
US8171048B2 Ranking documents based on a location sensitivity factor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Active
US9740202B2 Fall back trajectory systems for autonomous vehicles Performing Operations; Transporting 7 Active
US8595250B1 Category suggestions relating to a search Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US11124202B1 Adjusting timing of actuation commands to account for fixed and variable delays in autonomous driving control of vehicles Performing Operations; Transporting 5 Active
US9400183B1 Method and apparatus to transition between levels using warp zones Performing Operations; Transporting 5 Active
US7676745B2 Document segmentation based on visual gaps Physics 5 Active
US10513273B1 Driver transition assistance for transitioning to manual control for vehicles with autonomous driving modes Performing Operations; Transporting 5 Active
US8027988B1 Category suggestions relating to a search Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US8521717B2 Propagating information among web pages Physics 4 Active
US9909887B1 Method and apparatus to transition between levels using warp zones Performing Operations; Transporting 4 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.