Company Analysis

Ouster, Inc. (OUST)

Nasdaq: OUST · General Industrial Machinery & Equipment, NEC · San Francisco, CA · filing with the SEC since 2020
Grade5.7
◀ Past 4.4● Present 5.8▶ Future 6.8
1 est.

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

154 patents granted to the 9 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Ouster, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
154
148 utility, 6 reissue, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
25
Against 31 in 2024 and 23 in 2023
Applications published
206
16 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
9
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Measurement96
Optics16
Audio-visual technology6
Computer technology4
Semiconductors2
Basic communication processes1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name9 counted
Ouster, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
70 granted
85 published
Velodyne Lidar USA, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
59 granted
4 published
Sense Photonics, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
51 published
VELODYNE LIDAR USA, INC. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
45 published
Sense Photonics, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
21 granted
0 published
Ouster, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
11 published
STEREOLABS a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in FR
0 granted
10 published
STEREOLABS a subsidiary
FR, as the owner printed on each patent
2 granted
0 published
Stereolabs SAS a subsidiary
FR, as the owner printed on each patent
2 granted
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 23, 202512,505,678Two-dimensional semantic filtering for stereo images in high noise environmentsComputer technologyStereolabs SAS
Dec 23, 202512,504,519Power-efficient direct time of flight LIDARMeasurementSense Photonics, Inc.
Dec 2, 202512,487,362Configurable memory blocks for LIDAR measurementsMeasurementOuster, Inc.
Nov 25, 202512,481,065Event driven shared memory pixelMeasurementSense Photonics, Inc.
Nov 11, 202512,470,690Thermally robust calibration method for stereo cameras utilizing predictive modelsAudio-visual technologyStereolabs SAS
Nov 11, 202512,468,015Optical system for full frame flash solid state LIDAR systemMeasurementOuster, Inc.
Oct 21, 202512,449,306Systems and methods for efficient multi-return light detectorsMeasurementVelodyne Lidar USA, Inc.
Oct 14, 202512,442,927LiDAR system having a shared clock source, and methods of controlling signal processing components using the sameMeasurementVelodyne Lidar USA, Inc.
Oct 14, 202512,442,902Pipelined histogram pixelMeasurementSense Photonics, Inc.
Oct 7, 202512,436,245Linearization of chirp in coherent lidar systemsMeasurementVelodyne Lidar USA, Inc.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Measurement 32 · Computer technology 5 · Optics 2 · Audio-visual technology 1.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

SI Assistanton OUST · research, not advice