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2016
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Qualcomm
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Richard W. Lankford
RL
Richard W. Lankford
— 2 Patents in 2016
Qualcomm
:
2
patents
#936
of
3,136
Top 30%
San Diego, CA
:
#1,058
of
4,446
inventors
Top 25%
California
:
#12,284
of
57,791
inventors
Top 25%
Overall
(2016):
#105,409
of
481,213
Top 25%
2
Patents 2016
Issued Patents
2016
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2
patents
Patent #
Title
Co-Inventors
Date
Approx Value ⓘ
9444564
Selectively directing media feeds to a set of target user equipments
Samuel K. Sun
,
Anthony Pierre Stonefield
,
Mark Aaron Lindner
,
Shane Richard Dewing
,
Daniel S. Abplanalp
2016-09-13
$8,650,000
9277013
Storing local session data at a user equipment and selectively transmitting group session data to group session targets based on dynamic playback relevance information
Shane Richard Dewing
,
Daniel S. Abplanalp
,
Samuel K. Sun
,
Anthony Pierre Stonefield
,
Mark Aaron Lindner
2016-03-01
$6,835,000
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