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Stephen S. Tompkins — 8 Patents

A9A9.Com: 5 patents #70 of 440Top 20%
NASA: 2 patents #964 of 3,881Top 25%
San Jose, CA: #7,707 of 32,062 inventorsTop 25%
California: #74,834 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Stephen S. Tompkins has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at A9.Com. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in December 2025. Stephen S. Tompkins ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Stephen S. Tompkins in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1987.peak 11987: 1 patents19871996: 1 patents19962013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents20142016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12490051 Proximity based output selection for computing devices Federico Villa, Joshua Lance Leviste Principe, Sameer Bansal, Jonathan Burnham, Robert Hugh Tansley 2025-12-02
9875342 Dynamic barcode generation for content location Matthew Amacker 2018-01-23 $108,354,000
9607010 Techniques for shape-based search of content Leslie Wang, Arnab Sanat Kumar Dhua, Catherine Wah 2017-03-28 $39,561,000
9240058 Dynamic barcode generation for content location Matthew Amacker 2016-01-19 $76,302,000
8718369 Techniques for shape-based search of content Leslie Wang, Arnab Sanat Kumar Dhua, Catherine Wah 2014-05-06 $36,634,000
8577737 Method, medium, and system for application lending Matthew Amacker 2013-11-05 $53,517,000
5496639 Poly(arylene ether imidazole) surfacing films for flat and parabolic structures John W. Connell, Timothy W. Towell 1996-03-05
4662955 Method of thermal strain hysteresis reduction in metal matrix composites Gregory A. Dries 1987-05-05