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David L. Needle — 17 Patents

3D3Do: 5 patents #2 of 17Top 15%
ATAtari: 4 patents #8 of 59Top 15%
RCRose Communications: 3 patents #1 of 13Top 8%
CTCagent Technologies: 2 patents #1 of 19Top 6%
Alameda, CA: #80 of 1,067 inventorsTop 8%
California: #35,467 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
David L. Needle has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3Do. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in November 2001. David L. Needle ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list David L. Needle in Alameda, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2001Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1992.peak 31990: 1 patents19901991: 1 patents19911992: 3 patents19921993: 2 patents19931996: 3 patents19961997: 1 patents19971998: 2 patents19982000: 1 patents20002001: 3 patents2001

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6323654 Method and apparatus for remotely changing signal characteristics of a signal generator Stan F. Shepard, Gary Gin 2001-11-27
6285195 Time domain reflectometry apparatus and method 2001-09-04
6191772 Resolution enhancement for video display using multi-line interpolation Robert J. Mical, Teju Khubchandani, Stephen H. Landrum 2001-02-20 $18,448,000
6160405 Method and apparatus for remotely changing signal characteristics of a signal generator Stan F. Shepard, Gary Gin 2000-12-12
5838389 Apparatus and method for updating a CLUT during horizontal blanking Robert J. Mical, Teju Khubchandani 1998-11-17 $1,392,000
5752073 Digital signal processor architecture Donald Gray 1998-05-12 $21,440,000
5596693 Method for controlling a spryte rendering processor Robert J. Mical 1997-01-21 $2,167,000
5572235 Method and apparatus for processing image data Robert J. Mical 1996-11-05 $2,260,000
5502462 Display list management mechanism for real-time control of by-the-line modifiable video display system Robert J. Mical, Stephen H. Landrum, Teju Khubchandani 1996-03-26 $4,239,000
5481275 Resolution enhancement for video display using multi-line interpolation Robert J. Mical, Teju Khubchandani, Stephen H. Landrum 1996-01-02 $5,095,000
5260941 Digital radio telephone system Ronald Wilder, Gregory Pierce, Richard C. Frey, Whitney E. Childs-Goodrich 1993-11-09
5235677 Raster graphics color palette architecture for multiple display objects Robert J. Mical 1993-08-10 $5,642,000
5128928 Digital radio telephone system Ronald Wilder, Gregory Pierce, Richard C. Frey, Whitney E. Childs-Goodrich 1992-07-07
5113511 System for dynamically providing predicted high/slow speed accessing memory to a processing unit based on instructions Craig A. Nelson, Javier Solis 1992-05-12 $2,698,000
5091941 Secure voice data transmission system Bradley C. Stribling 1992-02-25
4988892 Method and circuit for generating dependent clock signals 1991-01-29 $2,377,000
4969647 Invertible hand-held electronic game apparatus Robert J. Mical, David Morse 1990-11-13 $1,217,000