William Whittaker
26Patents
19h-index
51Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 22, 1988 → Feb 14, 2020
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5610815A | Integrated vehicle positioning and navigation system, apparatus and method | Physics | 411 | Expired |
| US5615116A | Apparatus and method for autonomous vehicle navigation using path data | Physics | 378 | Expired |
| US7069124B1 | Robotic modeling of voids | Physics | 340 | Expired |
| US5684696A | System and method for enabling an autonomous vehicle to track a desired path | Physics | 238 | Expired |
| US5838562A | System and a method for enabling a vehicle to track a preset path | Physics | 238 | Expired |
| US5612883A | System and method for detecting obstacles in the path of a vehicle | Physics | 221 | Expired |
| US5956250A | Apparatus and method for autonomous vehicle navigation using absolute data | Physics | 217 | Expired |
| US5451135A | Collapsible mobile vehicle | Fixed Constructions | 214 | Expired |
| US6336051B1 | Agricultural harvester with robotic control | Physics | 158 | Expired |
| US5646845A | System and method for controlling an autonomously navigated vehicle | Physics | 122 | Expired |
| US5548516A | Multi-tasked navigation system and method for an autonomous land based vehicle | Physics | 109 | Expired |
| US5648901A | System and method for generating paths in an autonomous vehicle | Physics | 80 | Expired |
| US5911669A | Vision-based crop line tracking for harvesters | Physics | 75 | Expired |
| US5680313A | System and method for detecting obstacles in a road | Physics | 70 | Expired |
| US5657226A | System and method for causing an autonomous vehicle to track a path | Physics | 66 | Expired |
| US8024066B2 | Autonomous inspector mobile platform | Physics | 52 | Active |
| US5680306A | System, and method for enabling a vehicle to track a path | Physics | 45 | Expired |
| US7131791B2 | Pipeline rehabilitation systems | Fixed Constructions | 38 | Expired |
| US5005658A | Orthogonal legged walking robot | Performing Operations; Transporting | 29 | Expired |
| US5127484A | Orthogonal legged walking robot | Performing Operations; Transporting | 18 | Expired |
| US6918321B1 | Shingle ripper | Fixed Constructions | 11 | Expired |
| US10958206B1 | Battery powered generator | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1 | Active |
| US11972586B2 | Agile depth sensing using triangulation light curtains | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US11425357B2 | Method for epipolar time of flight imaging | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US11493634B2 | Programmable light curtains | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.