Inventor · Northville, MI, US

Michael James

51Patents
11h-index
55Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 5, 2007 → Mar 31, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8384534B2 Combining driver and environment sensing for vehicular safety systems Physics 226 Active
US9511767B1 Autonomous vehicle action planning using behavior prediction Performing Operations; Transporting 192 Active
US8605998B2 Real-time 3D point cloud obstacle discriminator apparatus and associated methodology for training a classifier via bootstrapping Physics 47 Active
US9884631B2 Transitioning between operational modes of an autonomous vehicle Performing Operations; Transporting 42 Active
US10460053B2 Systems and methods for surface property identification using waveform classification Physics 34 Active
US9855890B2 Autonomous vehicle interaction with external environment Performing Operations; Transporting 32 Active
US8705792B2 Object tracking using linear features Physics 17 Active
US9255989B2 Tracking on-road vehicles with sensors of different modalities Physics 16 Active
US8571722B2 Method for safely parking vehicle near obstacles Physics 16 Active
US9046600B2 Method and apparatus for intensity calibration of multi-beam lidar sensors Physics 15 Active
US9170116B1 Method for generating accurate lane level maps Physics 15 Active
US10852746B2 Detecting general road weather conditions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Active
US9384394B2 Method for generating accurate lane level maps Physics 8 Active
US10556600B2 Assessment of human driving performance using autonomous vehicles Performing Operations; Transporting 6 Active
US11297109B2 System and method for cybersecurity reconnaissance, analysis, and score generation using distributed systems Electricity 6 Active
US10489663B2 Systems and methods for identifying changes within a mapped environment Physics 5 Active
US10663584B2 Publishing LIDAR cluster data Performing Operations; Transporting 5 Active
US10838417B2 Systems for implementing fallback behaviors for autonomous vehicles Performing Operations; Transporting 3 Active
US10466361B2 Systems and methods for multi-sensor fusion using permutation matrix track association Physics 3 Active
US9573522B2 Vehicle seat haptic indication of future planned driving maneuvers Performing Operations; Transporting 3 Active
US8799201B2 Method and system for tracking objects Physics 3 Active
US10940851B2 Determining wheel slippage on self driving vehicle Physics 3 Active
US11650603B2 Detecting general road weather conditions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US8687898B2 System and method for object recognition based on three-dimensional adaptive feature detectors Physics 2 Active
US11673581B2 Puddle occupancy grid for autonomous vehicles Performing Operations; Transporting 2 Active

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