Inventor · Ann Arbor, MI, US

Fan Bai

147Patents
12h-index
176Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 16, 2007 → Dec 18, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9430944B2 Method and apparatus for determining traffic safety events using vehicular participative sensing systems Electricity 221 Active
US8447231B2 Intelligent telematics information dissemination using delegation, fetch, and share algorithms Electricity 199 Active
US8447804B2 Information gathering system using multi-radio telematics devices Physics 29 Active
US9475500B2 Use of participative sensing systems to enable enhanced road friction estimation Performing Operations; Transporting 27 Active
US9477989B2 Method and apparatus of determining relative driving characteristics using vehicular participative sensing systems Physics 25 Active
US8831869B2 Using V2X-based in-network message generation, aggregation, distribution and processing protocols to enable road hazard condition warning applications Physics 20 Active
US10331141B2 Systems for autonomous vehicle route selection and execution Performing Operations; Transporting 19 Active
US10761535B2 Intelligent vehicle navigation systems, methods, and control logic for multi-lane separation and trajectory extraction of roadway segments Physics 18 Active
US8831224B2 Method and apparatus for secure pairing of mobile devices with vehicles using telematics system Electricity 17 Active
US9173156B2 Method and system for transferring information in vehicular wireless networks Electricity 15 Active
US8032081B2 Using V2X in-network session maintenance protocols to enable instant chatting applications Electricity 13 Active
US8410956B2 Message management protocol persistent geocast routing Electricity 12 Active
US8059012B2 Reliable packet delivery protocol for geocast protocol in disconnected vehicular ad hoc network Electricity 12 Active
US9021049B2 Method and apparatus for augmenting smartphone-centric in-car infotainment system using vehicle Wi-Fi/DSRC Electricity 12 Active
US9521238B1 Establishing multiple short range wireless links between a vehicle and a mobile device Electricity 11 Active
US9058038B2 Method and system for predicting vehicle battery health using a collaborative vehicle battery health model Physics 10 Active
US10349011B2 System and method for improved obstacle awareness in using a V2X communications system Electricity 10 Active
US10109198B2 Method and apparatus of networked scene rendering and augmentation in vehicular environments in autonomous driving systems Electricity 9 Active
US8300564B2 Opportunistic data transfer between vehicles Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US9970780B2 Method and apparatus for fuel consumption prediction and cost estimation via crowd sensing in vehicle navigation system Physics 9 Active
US9430476B2 Method and apparatus of user recommendation system for in-vehicle apps Physics 9 Active
US10529089B2 Crowd-sensed point cloud map Physics 9 Active
US8478209B2 Method and apparatus for multimedia content promotion in vehicular wireless networks Electricity 7 Active
US8800040B1 Methods and systems for prioritizing the monitoring of malicious uniform resource locators for new malware variants Electricity 7 Active
US10139834B2 Methods and systems for processing local and cloud data in a vehicle and a cloud server for transmitting cloud data to vehicles Electricity 7 Active

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