Michael James
51Patents
11h-index
55Co-inventors
77Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 5, 2007 → Mar 31, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.